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 Seiten |
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... coloured glass , Stains the white radiance of eternity . I multiply these particulars in order to impress upon the reader's mind the great importance of imagination in all its phases , as a constituent part of the highest poetic faculty ...
... coloured glass , Stains the white radiance of eternity . I multiply these particulars in order to impress upon the reader's mind the great importance of imagination in all its phases , as a constituent part of the highest poetic faculty ...
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... . 32 " Soon as her garments loose , " & c . — This picture is from Ovid ; but the lovely and beautifully coloured comparison of the garland is Spenser's own . MAY . Character , Budding Beauty in male and female 120 SPENSER .
... . 32 " Soon as her garments loose , " & c . — This picture is from Ovid ; but the lovely and beautifully coloured comparison of the garland is Spenser's own . MAY . Character , Budding Beauty in male and female 120 SPENSER .
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... colouring ; Painter , Titian . Then came fair May , the fairest maid on ground , 33 Deck'd all with dainties of her season's pride , And throwing flowers out of her lap around : Upon two brethren's shoulders she did ride , The Twins of ...
... colouring ; Painter , Titian . Then came fair May , the fairest maid on ground , 33 Deck'd all with dainties of her season's pride , And throwing flowers out of her lap around : Upon two brethren's shoulders she did ride , The Twins of ...
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... colouring and contrast ; Painter , Titian . During the while that Guyon did abide In Mammon's house , the palmer , whom whilere That wanton maid of passage had denied , By further search had passage found elsewhere ; And being on his ...
... colouring and contrast ; Painter , Titian . During the while that Guyon did abide In Mammon's house , the palmer , whom whilere That wanton maid of passage had denied , By further search had passage found elsewhere ; And being on his ...
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... colouring of this stanza is as beautiful as the music . 3 " Thou scorner of the ground . " - A most noble and emphatic close of the stanza . Not that the lark , in any vulgar sense of the word , " scorns " the ground , for he dwells ...
... colouring of this stanza is as beautiful as the music . 3 " Thou scorner of the ground . " - A most noble and emphatic close of the stanza . Not that the lark , in any vulgar sense of the word , " scorns " the ground , for he dwells ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admiration Alken Ariel Beaumont Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson bound in cloth breath Caliban CHARLES DARWIN charm Chaucer Christabel Coleridge coloured dance Dante delight divine doth dreadful dream earth Edition enchanted exquisite eyes Faerie Queene fair fairy fancy fcap feeling flowers genius gentle golden grace hath head hear heart heaven Honest Man's Fortune illustrated imagination Jesuits lady light live look lord Lycidas Macbeth Mammon melancholy Milton mind moon Morpheus mortal nature never night Numbers o'er painted Painter passage passion play poem poet poetical poetry Porphyro post 8vo Priam queen reader rhyme satyrs Shakspeare sing sleep soft song soul sound Spenser spirit stanza sweet Sycorax Tamburlaine thee Theoph thine things thou art thought tion TITANIA Titian tree truth unto verse volume wanton wind wings witch wood word writing young δε
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.