The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina xi
... poetry to choose from , we can hit upon more ' poetical paragraphs ' than the well - known passage from The Mourning Bride . What , too , we immediately ask , is to be said of the critical faculty of one who made interest for the ...
... poetry to choose from , we can hit upon more ' poetical paragraphs ' than the well - known passage from The Mourning Bride . What , too , we immediately ask , is to be said of the critical faculty of one who made interest for the ...
Pàgina xii
... poetry is to gratify a particular taste : in a word , to please . ' Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason . ' ' Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by ...
... poetry is to gratify a particular taste : in a word , to please . ' Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason . ' ' Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by ...
Pàgina xiv
... poetry . ' ' That poetry and virtue , ' he remarks in the life of Gray , ' go always together , is an opinion so pleasing that I can forgive him who resolves to think it true . ' That is not the language of a man who is resolved to ...
... poetry . ' ' That poetry and virtue , ' he remarks in the life of Gray , ' go always together , is an opinion so pleasing that I can forgive him who resolves to think it true . ' That is not the language of a man who is resolved to ...
Pàgina xv
... poetry is invention ; such invention as , by producing something unexpected , surprises and delights . ' Hence the radical defect of almost all occasional poetry . We have been all born ; we have most of us been married ; and so many ...
... poetry is invention ; such invention as , by producing something unexpected , surprises and delights . ' Hence the radical defect of almost all occasional poetry . We have been all born ; we have most of us been married ; and so many ...
Pàgina xvi
... poetry for the most part unpleasing . The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition , and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction . ' ' The topics of devotion are few , and being few are ...
... poetry for the most part unpleasing . The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition , and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction . ' ' The topics of devotion are few , and being few are ...
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