Poetic Imagery Illustrated from Elizabethan Literature, Volume 35Russell & Russell, 1924 - 231 páginas |
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... greater variety in this respect than our own . While many authors are consciously cultivating an original figurative style , others studiously avoid all but the faintest traces of metaphor . Symbolists who have called each other ...
... greater variety in this respect than our own . While many authors are consciously cultivating an original figurative style , others studiously avoid all but the faintest traces of metaphor . Symbolists who have called each other ...
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... greater effective- ness . When the physicist unbends his fancy the universe shakes with laughter through his imagery . A review of some typical metaphors by men of science may be sugges- tive . There is for example a story that when a ...
... greater effective- ness . When the physicist unbends his fancy the universe shakes with laughter through his imagery . A review of some typical metaphors by men of science may be sugges- tive . There is for example a story that when a ...
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... greater dis- tinction among the Latin races . The English people may be said to excel in the transient image of poetry , and the Romance peoples in establishing conventional metaphors for popular abstractions in the pictorial arts ...
... greater dis- tinction among the Latin races . The English people may be said to excel in the transient image of poetry , and the Romance peoples in establishing conventional metaphors for popular abstractions in the pictorial arts ...
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... greater pretension is the nimble and affected metaphorical logic of Lyly . But early writers were much more earnest in this kind . Sir Thomas Elyot holds , for example , that Nature is our kindly teacher . If her face is read aright the ...
... greater pretension is the nimble and affected metaphorical logic of Lyly . But early writers were much more earnest in this kind . Sir Thomas Elyot holds , for example , that Nature is our kindly teacher . If her face is read aright the ...
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... greater importance at- tached to the former . If someone should admire a droop- ing flag and think it like a bird's body , we may suppose him more attached to the flag than to the bird . If on the other hand a torn flag should suggest a ...
... greater importance at- tached to the former . If someone should admire a droop- ing flag and think it like a bird's body , we may suppose him more attached to the flag than to the bird . If on the other hand a torn flag should suggest a ...
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Poetic Imagery Illustrated from Elizabethan Literature, Volume 35 Henry W. Wells Visualização integral - 1924 |
Poetic Imagery Illustrated from Elizabethan Literature, Volume 35 Henry W. Wells Visualização de excertos - 1951 |
Poetic Imagery Illustrated from Elizabethan Literature, Volume 35 Henry W. Wells Visualização de excertos - 1951 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
agery Antony Antony and Cleopatra appears beauty bethan citations cited Cleo Columbia University comedy conception contrast conventional Coriolanus death Decorative image Decorative imagery Decorative poetry Decorative verse Donne doth dramatic Drayton Elizabethan literature emblems emotional English Euphuistic expression Exuberant figure eyes Fairie Queene fancy fustian Greene hand heart heaven Henry Fifth idea ideal illustrate imaginative value incongruity ingenuity Intensive image King King Lear language Lear lines Love's Love's Labor's Lost Marlowe medieval meta metaphorical personification mind minor term Nash nature Othello painted passages pastoral pathetic fallacy Ph.D phor plays poem poet poetic imagery poetic metaphor Radical image relation Romeo and Juliet scene Shake Shakespere Shakespere's shows sonnet soul Spanish Tragedy Spenser spere spirit stars suggestion symbolism Tamb Tamburlaine Tempest thee Thomas Nash thou thought tion tive tragedy type of metaphor typical word
Passagens conhecidas
Página 31 - If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Página 166 - Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers
Página 114 - Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war! — And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture ; let us swear That you are worth your breeding : which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,* Straining upon the start. The game's afoot ; Follow your spirit : and, upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry ! England ! and Saint George...
Página 174 - Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air.
Página 180 - True, I talk of dreams; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind...
Página 101 - All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes,) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
Página 158 - She was a woman in her freshest age, Of wondrous beauty, and of bounty rare, With goodly grace and comely personage...
Página 173 - When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.
Página 188 - ... if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits ; how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other...
Página 174 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water.