Essays and PoemsCharles C. Little and James Brown, 1839 - 175 páginas |
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... voice is to the poet more friendly than the plain written records of history , we must confess that the spot on which he built up his scenes of heroic wonder was peculiarly favor- able . The advance , which the human mind had made ...
... voice is to the poet more friendly than the plain written records of history , we must confess that the spot on which he built up his scenes of heroic wonder was peculiarly favor- able . The advance , which the human mind had made ...
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... same time , an insuperable barrier in the way of any subject . Looking upon Homer , at least as regards the Iliad , as a single man speaking throughout with one accent of voice , one form of language , and one EPIC POETRY .
... same time , an insuperable barrier in the way of any subject . Looking upon Homer , at least as regards the Iliad , as a single man speaking throughout with one accent of voice , one form of language , and one EPIC POETRY .
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Jones Very Ralph Waldo Emerson. of voice , one form of language , and one expression of feeling , we leave to the framers of modern para- doxes the question , whether this name is a type or not , and proceed to consider what might be the ...
Jones Very Ralph Waldo Emerson. of voice , one form of language , and one expression of feeling , we leave to the framers of modern para- doxes the question , whether this name is a type or not , and proceed to consider what might be the ...
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... voice of nature herself speaking through her interpreter . Aristotle studied nature in Homer ; he gave no arbitrary rules , he did but trace the pleasing effects produced on the mind , and taught upon what those effects depended . He ...
... voice of nature herself speaking through her interpreter . Aristotle studied nature in Homer ; he gave no arbitrary rules , he did but trace the pleasing effects produced on the mind , and taught upon what those effects depended . He ...
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... voice even to the objects of inanimate creation . This is that primæval state of innocence from which we have fallen . We are no longer carried out of ourselves to become the expression of that which is around us ; but enchained by our ...
... voice even to the objects of inanimate creation . This is that primæval state of innocence from which we have fallen . We are no longer carried out of ourselves to become the expression of that which is around us ; but enchained by our ...
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admiration Aristotle beauty become beneath bloom bosom breast breath bright child childlike Christ Christian consciousness creations dæmon dark death Divine doth earth ence endeavor to show epic interest epic poem epic poetry eternal exhibit existence Father feel felt flower forever free agency gaze genius gift give Hamlet hand Harfleur hast hear heart heaven heroes heroic character heroic spirit Homer hour human mind Iliad impulse influence JAMES BROWN light live look Lucan Macbeth Menelaus Milton motive motley fool natural action never o'er objects onward ourselves outward Paradise Lost perfect play poet poet's Polonius possessed praise present rejoice rendered rest robes seems selfishness sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's mind song soul speak stand strange stream strongly sweet tell thee thine things thou thought tion tism tongue tree uncon unconscious utter Virgil visible voice wind wonder words
Passagens conhecidas
Página 78 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Página 59 - The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Página 26 - Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress; foolish tongues! When God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.
Página 46 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 72 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Página 34 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 104 - Our revels now are ended... These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Página 92 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Página 92 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Página 24 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Referências a este livro
Melville and the Politics of Identity: From King Lear to Moby-Dick Julian Markels Pré-visualização limitada - 1993 |
Romantische Ästhetik: Untersuchungen z. engl. Kunstlehre d. späten 18. u ... Herbert Mainusch Visualização de excertos - 1969 |