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?"Wiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 44
... character , makes the greatest poets ; feeling and thought the next ; fancy ( by itself ) the next ; wit the last . Thought by itself makes no poet at all ; for the mere conclu- sions of the understanding can at best be only so many ...
... character , makes the greatest poets ; feeling and thought the next ; fancy ( by itself ) the next ; wit the last . Thought by itself makes no poet at all ; for the mere conclu- sions of the understanding can at best be only so many ...
Σελίδα 49
... a fine instinct by Chau- cer in some of his latest works , where the narrative was fullest of action and character , abounded in his others ; and , in spite of the classics , it had not been recognized as a 5 SPENSER . 49.
... a fine instinct by Chau- cer in some of his latest works , where the narrative was fullest of action and character , abounded in his others ; and , in spite of the classics , it had not been recognized as a 5 SPENSER . 49.
Σελίδα 62
... character . THE CAVE OF MAMMON AND GARDEN OF PROSERPINE . Sir Guyon , crossing a desert , finds Mammon sitting amidst his gold in a gloomy valley . Mammon , taking him down into his cave , tempts him with the treasures there , and also ...
... character . THE CAVE OF MAMMON AND GARDEN OF PROSERPINE . Sir Guyon , crossing a desert , finds Mammon sitting amidst his gold in a gloomy valley . Mammon , taking him down into his cave , tempts him with the treasures there , and also ...
Σελίδα 76
... reminded me ; and I think the connoisseur will allow , that the assignment was easy , and that the painter - poet's range of art is equally wide and wonderful . ¿ CHARISSA ; OR , CHARITY . Character , Spiritual 70 SPENSER .
... reminded me ; and I think the connoisseur will allow , that the assignment was easy , and that the painter - poet's range of art is equally wide and wonderful . ¿ CHARISSA ; OR , CHARITY . Character , Spiritual 70 SPENSER .
Σελίδα 77
... Character , Spiritual Love ; Painter for it , Raphael . She was a woman in her freshest age , Of wondrous beauty and of bounty rare , With goodly grace and comely personage , That was on earth not easy to compare ; Full of great love ...
... Character , Spiritual Love ; Painter for it , Raphael . She was a woman in her freshest age , Of wondrous beauty and of bounty rare , With goodly grace and comely personage , That was on earth not easy to compare ; Full of great love ...
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Achilles alliteration angels Archimago Ariel Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson Caliban called canto Character charm Chaucer Christabel Coleridge Correggio CRITICAL NOTICE dance Dante delight Demogorgon divine doth dreadful dream earth enchanted exquisite eyes Faerie Faerie Queene fair fairy fancy feeling flowers garden genius gentle goddess golden goodly grace greatest hath head hear heart heaven Homer imagination Jove lady light live locks look lord Lycidas Macbeth Mammon melancholy Milton mind moon Morpheus nature never night o'er Orlando Furioso Orlando Innamorato Ovid painted Painter passage passion perhaps poem poet poetical poetry Priam Proserpine Queene reader rhyme round satyrs sense Shakspeare sing sleep soft song soul sound Spenser spirit sprites stanza sweet Tamburlaine thee thine things thought TITANIA tree truth unto verse versification wanton wind wings witch wood words writing δε
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Σελίδα 178 - 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 174 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage. But, O sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower! Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek!
Σελίδα 166 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Σελίδα 240 - 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 180 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs!
Σελίδα 174 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Σελίδα 179 - Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream-- Ay me! I fondly dream, Had ye been there; for what could that have done?
Σελίδα 21 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride...
Σελίδα 181 - And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes. Now, Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more; Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood.
Σελίδα 173 - But, first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak.