Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative of Those First Requisites of Their Art; with Markings of the Best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in Answer to the Question, "What is Poetry?"Smith, Elder and Company, 1846 - 345 σελίδες |
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... genius consists in his leaving it to stand alone , illustrated by nothing but the light of its own tears or smiles , its own wonder , might , or playfulness . Hence the complete effect of many a simple passage in our old WHAT IS POETRY ? 5.
... genius consists in his leaving it to stand alone , illustrated by nothing but the light of its own tears or smiles , its own wonder , might , or playfulness . Hence the complete effect of many a simple passage in our old WHAT IS POETRY ? 5.
Σελίδα 6
... complete effect of many a simple passage in our old English ballads and romances , and of the pas- sionate sincerity in general of the greatest early poets , such as Homer and Chaucer , who flourished before the existence of a ...
... complete effect of many a simple passage in our old English ballads and romances , and of the pas- sionate sincerity in general of the greatest early poets , such as Homer and Chaucer , who flourished before the existence of a ...
Σελίδα 36
... complete . It is the shutting up of his powers in " measureful content ; " the answer of form to his spirit ; of strength and ease to his guidance . It is the willing action , the proud and fiery hap- piness , of the winged steed on ...
... complete . It is the shutting up of his powers in " measureful content ; " the answer of form to his spirit ; of strength and ease to his guidance . It is the willing action , the proud and fiery hap- piness , of the winged steed on ...
Σελίδα 37
... complete sympathy with beauty , must , of necessity , leave no sense of the beautiful , and no power over its forms , unmanifested ; and verse flows as inevitably from this condition of its integrity , as other laws of pro- portion do ...
... complete sympathy with beauty , must , of necessity , leave no sense of the beautiful , and no power over its forms , unmanifested ; and verse flows as inevitably from this condition of its integrity , as other laws of pro- portion do ...
Σελίδα 85
... complete a sense of the ocean under one of its aspects ! Spenser had often been at sea , and his pictures of it , or in connexion with it , are frequent and fine accordingly , superior perhaps to those of any other English poet , Milton ...
... complete a sense of the ocean under one of its aspects ! Spenser had often been at sea , and his pictures of it , or in connexion with it , are frequent and fine accordingly , superior perhaps to those of any other English poet , Milton ...
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Σελίδα 262 - And all their echoes, mourn : The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays...
Σελίδα 238 - Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Σελίδα 189 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Σελίδα 340 - Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
Σελίδα 343 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...
Σελίδα 247 - Hard by, a cottage chimney smokes From betwixt two aged oaks, Where Corydon and Thyrsis, met, Are at their savoury dinner set Of herbs, and other country messes Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses...
Σελίδα 339 - MY HEART aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Σελίδα 265 - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks; Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes That on the green turf suck the honeyed showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Σελίδα 248 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Σελίδα 286 - twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware ! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.