Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Том 1Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 |
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... Perhaps no person can be a poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain unsoundness of mind , if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean , not of course all writing in verse , nor ...
... Perhaps no person can be a poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain unsoundness of mind , if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean , not of course all writing in verse , nor ...
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... perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title of superiority . His very talents will be a hin- derance to him . His difficulties will be proportioned to his proficiency in the pursuits which are fashionable among his contemporaries ; and ...
... perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title of superiority . His very talents will be a hin- derance to him . His difficulties will be proportioned to his proficiency in the pursuits which are fashionable among his contemporaries ; and ...
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... perhaps no two kinds of composition so essentially dissimilar , as the drama and the ode . The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight , and to let nothing appear but his characters . As soon as he attracts notice to ...
... perhaps no two kinds of composition so essentially dissimilar , as the drama and the ode . The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight , and to let nothing appear but his characters . As soon as he attracts notice to ...
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... perhaps beyond any powers . Instead of correcting what was bad , he destroyed what was excellent . He substituted crutches for stilts , bad sermons for good odes . Milton , it is well known , admired Euripides highly ; much more highly ...
... perhaps beyond any powers . Instead of correcting what was bad , he destroyed what was excellent . He substituted crutches for stilts , bad sermons for good odes . Milton , it is well known , admired Euripides highly ; much more highly ...
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... Perhaps none of the secondary causes , which Gibbon has assigned for the rapidity with which Christianity spread over the world , while Judaism scarcely ever acquired a proselyte , operated more powerfully than this feeling . God , the ...
... Perhaps none of the secondary causes , which Gibbon has assigned for the rapidity with which Christianity spread over the world , while Judaism scarcely ever acquired a proselyte , operated more powerfully than this feeling . God , the ...
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Стр. 30 - I should much commend the tragical part, if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Doric delicacy in your songs and odes, whereunto I must plainly confess to have seen yet nothing parallel in our language : Ipsa mollities.
Стр. 56 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
Стр. 31 - And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound, In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits the Assyrian queen.
Стр. 137 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Стр. 456 - Ho! Philip, send, for charity, thy Mexican pistoles, That Antwerp monks may sing a mass for thy poor spearmen's souls. Ho ! gallant nobles of the League, look that your arms be bright ; Ho ! burghers of Saint Genevieve, keep watch and ward to-night.
Стр. 71 - What! have you let the false enchanter scape? O ye mistook; ye should have snatched his wand, And bound him fast. Without his rod reversed, And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the Lady that sits here In stony fetters fixed and motionless.
Стр. 21 - fine frenzy " which he ascribes to the poet, — a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false. After the first suppositions have been made...
Стр. 23 - And, as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age. As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions, as the outlines of certainty become more and more definite, and the shades of probability...
Стр. 432 - The wicket gate, and the desolate swamp which separates it from the City of Destruction, the long line of road, as straight as a rule can make it, the Interpreter's house and all its fair shows, the prisoner in the iron cage, the palace, at the doors of which armed men kept guard, and on the battlements of which walked persons clothed all in gold, the cross and the sepulchre, the steep hill and the pleasant...
Стр. 32 - The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante as the Hieroglyphics of Egypt differed from the picture-writing of Mexico. The images which Dante employs speak for themselves ; they stand simply for what they are. Those of Milton have a signification which is often discernible only to the initiated. Their value depends less on what they directly represent than on what they remotely suggest.