Poetics: An Essay on PoetrySmith, Elder, and Company, 1852 - 294 pages |
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... all our happiness , past , present , and to come . It is built on , and of , and in , and for happiness . " It is the record , " as Shelley has it , " of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds . " 10 INTRODUCTION .
... all our happiness , past , present , and to come . It is built on , and of , and in , and for happiness . " It is the record , " as Shelley has it , " of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds . " 10 INTRODUCTION .
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... comes , like an angel , unheard , unseen , unknown , and not till she has gone or is parting from us , are our eyes opened to see what we have enjoyed . It was when the Saviour was vanishing from his disciples that they knew it was He ...
... comes , like an angel , unheard , unseen , unknown , and not till she has gone or is parting from us , are our eyes opened to see what we have enjoyed . It was when the Saviour was vanishing from his disciples that they knew it was He ...
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... comes ; " all these are but ways of expressing two things , that pleasure consists in giving chase , and that the object of pleasure is never present , but always out of ourselves . Chiefly to this , although partly to the first law ...
... comes ; " all these are but ways of expressing two things , that pleasure consists in giving chase , and that the object of pleasure is never present , but always out of ourselves . Chiefly to this , although partly to the first law ...
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... comes the old salutation , What is Poetry ? Most persons think they know what it is well enough , but , if they try , they will find that they know it no bet- ter than Augustine knew Time : If you ask me , he says , what Time is , I ...
... comes the old salutation , What is Poetry ? Most persons think they know what it is well enough , but , if they try , they will find that they know it no bet- ter than Augustine knew Time : If you ask me , he says , what Time is , I ...
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... come up to our wish . If , therefore , on the one hand , it has to raise nature , on the other , it must rise to God . Bacon says , that while the imagination is employed in adapting the shows of things to the heart's desire , it is the ...
... come up to our wish . If , therefore , on the one hand , it has to raise nature , on the other , it must rise to God . Bacon says , that while the imagination is employed in adapting the shows of things to the heart's desire , it is the ...
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Page 144 - Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse...
Page 105 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 203 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs; and Nature gave a second groan; Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Page 187 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.
Page 293 - Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist : notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Page 106 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Page 145 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 54 - Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract, and the concealment of those which repel the imagination; but religion must be shown as it is; suppression and addition equally corrupt it; and such as it is, it is known already.
Page 144 - OF MAN'S first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of Chaos...