Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2W. Pickering, 1847 - 804 páginas |
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... reason why it is so , and not otherwise . If metre be super- added , all other parts must be made consonant with it . They must be such , as to justify the perpetual and distinct attention to each part , which an exact correspondent ...
... reason why it is so , and not otherwise . If metre be super- added , all other parts must be made consonant with it . They must be such , as to justify the perpetual and distinct attention to each part , which an exact correspondent ...
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... reason than that it would be intolerable in conversation or in prose . Though alas ! even our prose writings , nay even the style of our more set discourses , strive to be in the fashion , and trick themselves out in the soiled and over ...
... reason than that it would be intolerable in conversation or in prose . Though alas ! even our prose writings , nay even the style of our more set discourses , strive to be in the fashion , and trick themselves out in the soiled and over ...
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... reasons , and converted into mere arti- fices of connexion or ornament , constitute the characteristic falsity in the poetic style of the moderns ; and as far as he has , with equal acuteness and clearness , pointed out the process by ...
... reasons , and converted into mere arti- fices of connexion or ornament , constitute the characteristic falsity in the poetic style of the moderns ; and as far as he has , with equal acuteness and clearness , pointed out the process by ...
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... reason , but both from the few instances in which the poet himself need be supposed to have been governed by it , and from the comparative inferiority of those instances ; still more must I hesitate in my assent to the sentence which ...
... reason , but both from the few instances in which the poet himself need be supposed to have been governed by it , and from the comparative inferiority of those instances ; still more must I hesitate in my assent to the sentence which ...
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... reason for their being written metrically ? And , thus continuing , she said , " I had a Son , who many a day Sailed on the seas ; but he is dead ; In Denmark he was cast away ; 9 [ Sentimental Journey and Tristram Shandy . 271 , 312 ...
... reason for their being written metrically ? And , thus continuing , she said , " I had a Son , who many a day Sailed on the seas ; but he is dead ; In Denmark he was cast away ; 9 [ Sentimental Journey and Tristram Shandy . 271 , 312 ...
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admiration appeared beautiful believe blank verse boys Bristol brother called character Charles Lamb Charles Lloyd child Christian Coleridge's common composition criticism Dane dear delight diction drama Edinburgh Review edition effect English essays excellence excitement expression eyes fancy Father feelings genius German ground heart heaven human Iamus images imagination instance Klopstock Kotzebue language least less letter lines literary look Lyrical Ballads mean metre Milton mind moral Morning Post Mother Muse nature never object Paradise Lost passage passion perhaps person philosophical Pindar play pleasure poem poet poet's poetic poetry Poole preface present prose published racter Ratzeburg reader rhyme S. T. COLERIDGE says seems sense Shakspeare Sonnet soul Southey speak specimens spirit stanzas style taste things thou thought tion translation truth verse Watchman whole words Wordsworth writings written wrote
Passagens conhecidas
Página 588 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Página 498 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Página 459 - No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Página 587 - Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise...
Página 553 - Joyous as morning Thou art laughing and scorning ; Thou hast a nest for thy love and thy rest, And, though little troubled with sloth, Drunken Lark ! thou would'st be loth To be such a traveller as I. Happy, happy Liver, With a soul as strong as a mountain river Pouring out praise to the Almighty Giver...
Página 504 - In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire: These ears alas! for other notes repine; A different object do these eyes require; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
Página 457 - Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace...
Página 451 - What is poetry? — is so nearly the same question with, what is a poet? — that the answer to the one is involved in the solution of the other.
Página 443 - I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation...
Página 588 - Nor man nor boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy ! Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither ; Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.