The Theory of Poetry in England: Its Development in Doctrines and Ideas from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth CenturyMacmillan and Company, limited, 1914 - 319 стор. |
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... verse . The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it , the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof ...
... verse . The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it , the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof ...
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... verses , such as they are , ex tempore ; but there never come [ s ] from them one sense worth the life of a day . A rhymer and a poet are two things . . . . The third requisite in our poet or maker is imitation , to be able to convert ...
... verses , such as they are , ex tempore ; but there never come [ s ] from them one sense worth the life of a day . A rhymer and a poet are two things . . . . The third requisite in our poet or maker is imitation , to be able to convert ...
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... verse ( the divine style ) pass for the word of God and not of man , and to be hearkened to with reverence . . . . But why a Christian should think it an ornament to his poem , either to profane the true God or invoke a false one , I ...
... verse ( the divine style ) pass for the word of God and not of man , and to be hearkened to with reverence . . . . But why a Christian should think it an ornament to his poem , either to profane the true God or invoke a false one , I ...
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... verse , even elegancy Poetic itself , though that comes nearest , are one thing , true native energy poetry is another ; in which there is a certain air and spirit which perhaps the most learned and judicious in other arts do not ...
... verse , even elegancy Poetic itself , though that comes nearest , are one thing , true native energy poetry is another ; in which there is a certain air and spirit which perhaps the most learned and judicious in other arts do not ...
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... Verse and Prose ( Preface ) , 1693 . [ T ] hough there may be good sense found without wit , there can be no true wit where there is no good sense . For a thought that is really witty , must necessarily be true , and have something in ...
... Verse and Prose ( Preface ) , 1693 . [ T ] hough there may be good sense found without wit , there can be no true wit where there is no good sense . For a thought that is really witty , must necessarily be true , and have something in ...
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The Theory of Poetry in England: Its Development in Doctrines and Ideas from ... Richard Pape Cowl Перегляд фрагмента - 1970 |
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Сторінка 184 - The antechapel where the statue stood Of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
Сторінка 266 - A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ : Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where Nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
Сторінка 85 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Сторінка 4 - Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt...
Сторінка 114 - It has been before observed that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion...
Сторінка 73 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
Сторінка 37 - With this he breaketh from the sweet embrace Of those fair arms which bound him to her breast, And homeward through the dark laund runs apace; Leaves Love upon her back, deeply distress'd. Look how a bright star shooteth from the sky, So glides he in the night from Venus...
Сторінка 68 - The form is mechanic, when on any given material we impress a predetermined form, not necessarily arising out of the properties of the material; as when to a mass of wet clay we give whatever shape we wish it to retain when hardened. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate; it shapes, as it develops, itself from within, and the fullness of its development is one and the same with the perfection of its outward form.
Сторінка 282 - Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Сторінка 85 - Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence...