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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... never does . The passage is imitated from Ovid ( Lib . ii . , ver . 592 ) , but with wonderful concentration , and superior home appeal to the imagination . Ovid will have no dogs , nor any sound at all but that of Lethe rippling over ...
... never does . The passage is imitated from Ovid ( Lib . ii . , ver . 592 ) , but with wonderful concentration , and superior home appeal to the imagination . Ovid will have no dogs , nor any sound at all but that of Lethe rippling over ...
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... never see before , Nor ever could within one place be found , Though all the wealth which is , or was of yore , Could gathered be through all the world around , And that above were added to that under ground . The charge thereof unto a ...
... never see before , Nor ever could within one place be found , Though all the wealth which is , or was of yore , Could gathered be through all the world around , And that above were added to that under ground . The charge thereof unto a ...
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... never thoroughly dyen couth . Die could ; he never could thoroughly die . Truly horrible ; and , as Swift says of his hanging footman , " very satisfactory to the beholders . " Yet Spenser's Tantalus , and his Pontius Pilate , and ...
... never thoroughly dyen couth . Die could ; he never could thoroughly die . Truly horrible ; and , as Swift says of his hanging footman , " very satisfactory to the beholders . " Yet Spenser's Tantalus , and his Pontius Pilate , and ...
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... never more free from his superfluousness than when painting a picture . When he gets into a moral , or intellectual , or narrative vein , we might often spare him a good deal of the flow of it ; but on occasions of sheer poetry and ...
... never more free from his superfluousness than when painting a picture . When he gets into a moral , or intellectual , or narrative vein , we might often spare him a good deal of the flow of it ; but on occasions of sheer poetry and ...
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... never mortal eye behold such heavenly grace . It fortuned , out of the thickest wood A ramping lion rushed suddenly , Hunting full greedy after savage blood : Soon as the royal virgin he did spy , With gaping mouth at her ran greedily ...
... never mortal eye behold such heavenly grace . It fortuned , out of the thickest wood A ramping lion rushed suddenly , Hunting full greedy after savage blood : Soon as the royal virgin he did spy , With gaping mouth at her ran greedily ...
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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