Essays Chiefly on Poetry, Том 2Macmillan and Company, 1887 |
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... means of a central figure that unity is imparted to a group . When the persons constituting that group , or the larger number of them , fix their attention on a common object or a common action , there we have unity ; and we feel it the ...
... means of a central figure that unity is imparted to a group . When the persons constituting that group , or the larger number of them , fix their attention on a common object or a common action , there we have unity ; and we feel it the ...
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... mean and meagre soul " attaches itself to Dunstan as the only defence , while persecuted by her " past misdeeds and ever - present fears . " The princess , too , has caught the infection , though it has not tainted " her pleasant purity ...
... mean and meagre soul " attaches itself to Dunstan as the only defence , while persecuted by her " past misdeeds and ever - present fears . " The princess , too , has caught the infection , though it has not tainted " her pleasant purity ...
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... means of a relic , the healing virtue of which depends upon the spotless purity in heart and life of her who touches with it the sufferer's brow . She makes the attempt , and fails . The ordinary reader will account for her failure ...
... means of a relic , the healing virtue of which depends upon the spotless purity in heart and life of her who touches with it the sufferer's brow . She makes the attempt , and fails . The ordinary reader will account for her failure ...
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... means callous , character of Burgundy . He is thus described early in the play- Other clay , Dug from some miry ... mean be shed Than ere by Bajazet with all his hosts . Therefore it was to France he sent him back With gifts , and what ...
... means callous , character of Burgundy . He is thus described early in the play- Other clay , Dug from some miry ... mean be shed Than ere by Bajazet with all his hosts . Therefore it was to France he sent him back With gifts , and what ...
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... means of amusing the audience , that they were rarely forced to elicit their own deeper powers . Strength to excite and ribaldry to amuse sufficed , and they too often spared themselves the trouble of addressing the finer affections ...
... means of amusing the audience , that they were rarely forced to elicit their own deeper powers . Strength to excite and ribaldry to amuse sufficed , and they too often spared themselves the trouble of addressing the finer affections ...
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admiration Aloysius ancient Artemidora aspirations beauty believe belongs Burgundy Cassinel character chiefly Christ Christian classical creature delight divine drama dramatists Duke of Burgundy Dunstan earth elevation Elgiva English poetry Epicurean eternal exist faculty Faith fancy Fiordeliza genius gift grace Greek poetry hand heart heaven higher human ideal imagination inspiration instinct intellectual Keats knowledge Landor's Laodamia Leolf less light lives Lord Maid's Tragedy man's matter mind modern Montargis moral mountains nature never noble objects once Pagan Pantheism passion pathos perfect Philip van Artevelde philosophy play poem poet poetic possessed prayer reality reason region religion religious remarked revealed reverence ribaldry Rosalba Ruggiero Saints scene sense sentiment Shakespeare Shelley Silisco song sophisms soul Spadone spirit strength supernatural sympathies Taylor's temperament thee Theism theme things thou thought tion Tragedy true truth versatility virtue voice wonderful words Wordsworth youth
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Сторінка 116 - I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Сторінка 180 - He is retired as noontide dew Or fountain in a noon-day grove; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
Сторінка 120 - I scarcely remember counting upon any Happiness. I look not for it if it be not in the present hour. Nothing startles me beyond the Moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a Sparrow come before my Window, I take part in its existence and pick about the Gravel.
Сторінка 141 - We are what suns and winds and waters make us The mountains are our sponsors, and the rills Fashion and win their nursling with their smiles. But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties ; as the feet Of fabled faeries when the sun goes down Trip o'er the grass where wrestlers strove by day. Then Justice...
Сторінка 120 - Sublime ; which is a thing per se, and stands alone), it is not itself — it has no self — It is everything and nothing — It has no character — it enjoys light and shade ; it lives in gusto, be it foul or fair, high or low, rich or poor, mean or elevated. — It has as much delight in conceiving an lago as an Imogen. What shocks the virtuous philosopher delights the chameleon poet.
Сторінка 116 - Its touches of beauty should never be half-way, thereby making the reader breathless, instead of content. The rise, the progress, the setting of imagery, should, like the sun, come natural to him, shine over him, and set soberly, although in magnificence, leaving him in the luxury of twilight.
Сторінка 123 - The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man. It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.
Сторінка 123 - Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. My own domestic criticism has given me pain without comparison beyond what Blackwood...
Сторінка 181 - Without hands a man might have feet, and could still walk : but, consider it, — without morality, intellect were impossible for him ; a thoroughly immoral man could not know anything at all ! To know a thing, what we can call knowing, a man must first love the thing, sympathise with it : that is, be virtuously related to it.
Сторінка 182 - ... with it : that is, be virtuously related to it. If he have not the justice to put down his own .selfishness at every turn, the courage to stand by the dangerous-true at every turn, how shall he know ? His virtues, all of them, will lie recorded in his knowledge. Nature, with her truth, remains to the bad, to the selfish and the pusillanimous for ever a sealed book : what such can know of Nature is mean, superficial, small ; for the uses of the day merely.