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 Seiten |
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... sometimes in simile , as when Homer compares Apollo descending in his wrath at noon - day to the coming of night - time : sometimes in metaphor , or simile comprised in a word , as in Milton's " motes that people the sunbeams ; " sometimes ...
... sometimes in simile , as when Homer compares Apollo descending in his wrath at noon - day to the coming of night - time : sometimes in metaphor , or simile comprised in a word , as in Milton's " motes that people the sunbeams ; " sometimes ...
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... sometimes by the hair , sometimes by the nose ! This , which would be purely childish and ridiculous in the hands of an inferior poet , becomes inter- esting , nay grand , in Ariosto's , from the beauties of his style , and its ...
... sometimes by the hair , sometimes by the nose ! This , which would be purely childish and ridiculous in the hands of an inferior poet , becomes inter- esting , nay grand , in Ariosto's , from the beauties of his style , and its ...
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... sometimes gave the rhyme a turn agree- ably wilful , or an appearance of choosing what lay in its way ; as if a man should pick up a stone to throw at another's head , where a less confident foot would have stumbled over it . Such is ...
... sometimes gave the rhyme a turn agree- ably wilful , or an appearance of choosing what lay in its way ; as if a man should pick up a stone to throw at another's head , where a less confident foot would have stumbled over it . Such is ...
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... sometimes indulged in by young writers on the plea of its being natural ; but this is a mere confusion of triviality with propriety , and is usually the result of indolence . Unsuperfluousness is rather a matter of style in general ...
... sometimes indulged in by young writers on the plea of its being natural ; but this is a mere confusion of triviality with propriety , and is usually the result of indolence . Unsuperfluousness is rather a matter of style in general ...
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... Sometimes it is a grace in a master like But er to force his rhyme , thus showing a laughing wilful power over the most stubborn materials : - Win The women , and make them draw in The men , as Indians with a fèmale Tame elephant ...
... Sometimes it is a grace in a master like But er to force his rhyme , thus showing a laughing wilful power over the most stubborn materials : - Win The women , and make them draw in The men , as Indians with a fèmale Tame elephant ...
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auld bard Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson bless bonnie breath Burns's called character charm Chaucer dear death delight divine doth dream Dumfries earth Ellisland eyes Faerie Queene fair fairy fancy fear feeling felt flowers frae gauger genius hand happy hath head hear heard heart heaven Hector Macneil hour human imagination inspired knew labor lady light live look Lycidas Macbeth Mauchline melancholy Milton mind mirth moral morning Mossgiel muse nature never noble o'er passage passion perhaps pity pleasure poem poet poet's poetical poetry poor pride rhyme Robert Burns round Scotland Scottish Shakspeare Shanter sing sleep song soul Spenser spirit stanza sugh sweet Sycorax Tamburlaine tears tell thee things Thomson thou art thought tion TITANIA truth verse voice Whyles wife William Burnes wind witch wood words young youth