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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... live in the water his wood - nymphs with faces of knotted oak ; his angels without breath and song , because no lungs could exist between the earth's atmosphere and the empyrean . The Grecian tendency in this respect is safer than the ...
... live in the water his wood - nymphs with faces of knotted oak ; his angels without breath and song , because no lungs could exist between the earth's atmosphere and the empyrean . The Grecian tendency in this respect is safer than the ...
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... live on is a clog to the freedom and variety that abound within its sphere . Verse is no dominator over the poet , except inasmuch as the bond is reci- procal , and the poet dominates over the verse . They are lovers , playfully ...
... live on is a clog to the freedom and variety that abound within its sphere . Verse is no dominator over the poet , except inasmuch as the bond is reci- procal , and the poet dominates over the verse . They are lovers , playfully ...
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... lives ( it seemèd ) whilome there were shed , And their vile carcases now left unburied . They forward pass , nor Guyon yet spake word , Till that they came unto an iron door , Which to them open'd of its own accord , And show'd of ...
... lives ( it seemèd ) whilome there were shed , And their vile carcases now left unburied . They forward pass , nor Guyon yet spake word , Till that they came unto an iron door , Which to them open'd of its own accord , And show'd of ...
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... live in high degree , Example be of mind intemperate , To teach them how to use their present state . " Then ' gan the cursed wretch aloud to cry , Accusing highest Jove and gods ingrate : And eke blaspheming Heaven bitterly , As author ...
... live in high degree , Example be of mind intemperate , To teach them how to use their present state . " Then ' gan the cursed wretch aloud to cry , Accusing highest Jove and gods ingrate : And eke blaspheming Heaven bitterly , As author ...
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... live with me and be my love , And we will all the pleasures prove , That hill and valley , grove and field , And all the craggy mountains yield . There will we sit upon the rocks , And see the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow ...
... live with me and be my love , And we will all the pleasures prove , That hill and valley , grove and field , And all the craggy mountains yield . There will we sit upon the rocks , And see the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow ...
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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.