Lectures on Poetry and General Literature: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Longman, 1833 - 394 стор. |
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... previous knowledge , there- fore , of the subject , the figures in the most perfect historical group are nameless ; the business in which they are engaged is obscure ; while often the country 12 NO . I. THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY .
... previous knowledge , there- fore , of the subject , the figures in the most perfect historical group are nameless ; the business in which they are engaged is obscure ; while often the country 12 NO . I. THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY .
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... figures or monumental groups . When , however , ( to use a strong metaphor ) at the touch of some Promethean hand , a statue steps out of this en- chanted circle , and looks as though it had grown out of the marble in the course of ...
... figures or monumental groups . When , however , ( to use a strong metaphor ) at the touch of some Promethean hand , a statue steps out of this en- chanted circle , and looks as though it had grown out of the marble in the course of ...
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... figures , or compli- cated groups , more easily retained ( for words are better recollected than shapen substances ) , and infi- nitely more diversified , than the chisel could hew out of all the rocks under the sun . Nor is this a ...
... figures , or compli- cated groups , more easily retained ( for words are better recollected than shapen substances ) , and infi- nitely more diversified , than the chisel could hew out of all the rocks under the sun . Nor is this a ...
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... figures frequently , and with small groups occa- sionally , under the guise of metaphors and similes , poetry of every kind is peopled more splendidly , beautifully , and awfully , than was the Grecian Olympus with gods and heroes , the ...
... figures frequently , and with small groups occa- sionally , under the guise of metaphors and similes , poetry of every kind is peopled more splendidly , beautifully , and awfully , than was the Grecian Olympus with gods and heroes , the ...
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... figure which personifies the expiring champion , Painting might take up the same subject , and represent the amphi- theatre thronged to the height with ferocious faces , all bent upon the exulting conqueror and his pro- strate ...
... figure which personifies the expiring champion , Painting might take up the same subject , and represent the amphi- theatre thronged to the height with ferocious faces , all bent upon the exulting conqueror and his pro- strate ...
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Lectures on Poetry and General Literature: Delivered at the Royal ... James Montgomery Повний перегляд - 1833 |
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Сторінка 25 - And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away...
Сторінка 171 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Сторінка 61 - As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Сторінка 240 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Сторінка 51 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their...
Сторінка 101 - ... a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.
Сторінка 101 - Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect...
Сторінка 246 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Сторінка 126 - Could I embody and unbosom now, That which is most within me, — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, [sword.
Сторінка 51 - LEAR. Pray, do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man, fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; and, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.