Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 Seiten |
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... poetical record of his own feelings and experience — a con- nected series of entries , as it were , in his own diary — during a certain period of his London life . This , we say , is con- clusively determined and agreed upon ; and ...
... poetical record of his own feelings and experience — a con- nected series of entries , as it were , in his own diary — during a certain period of his London life . This , we say , is con- clusively determined and agreed upon ; and ...
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... poetical giant . A dramatic talent of any importance , ' said Goethe , ' could not forbear to notice Shakespeare's works ; nay , could not forbear to study them . Having studied them , he must be aware that Shake- speare has already ...
... poetical giant . A dramatic talent of any importance , ' said Goethe , ' could not forbear to notice Shakespeare's works ; nay , could not forbear to study them . Having studied them , he must be aware that Shake- speare has already ...
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... poetical career and aim . " Thus began that tendency from which I could not deviate my whole life through ; namely , the tendency to turn into an image , into a poem , everything that delighted or troubled me , or otherwise occupied me ...
... poetical career and aim . " Thus began that tendency from which I could not deviate my whole life through ; namely , the tendency to turn into an image , into a poem , everything that delighted or troubled me , or otherwise occupied me ...
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... poetical character . Poets and artists generally , it is held , are and ought to be distinguished by a predominance of sensibility over principle , an excess of what Coleridge called the spiritual over what he called the moral part of ...
... poetical character . Poets and artists generally , it is held , are and ought to be distinguished by a predominance of sensibility over principle , an excess of what Coleridge called the spiritual over what he called the moral part of ...
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... poetical compositions of Milton , both in English and in Latin , which survive as specimens of his earliest muse . Of these , some three or four which happen to be specially dated - such as the Elegy on the Death of a Fair Infant ...
... poetical compositions of Milton , both in English and in Latin , which survive as specimens of his earliest muse . Of these , some three or four which happen to be specially dated - such as the Elegy on the Death of a Fair Infant ...
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Seite 395 - 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...
Seite 123 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
Seite 44 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Seite 419 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
Seite 440 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son...
Seite 450 - In secret, riding through the air she comes, Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon Eclipses at their charms.
Seite 441 - ... boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Seite 366 - Then up I rose, And dragged to earth, both branch and bough with crash And merciless ravage, and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being...