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... metre , accompanied by a certain peculiar and artificial phraseology called poetic diction thus begetting that exaggerated antithesis between poetry and prose with which our language is still infected . Instead of re- garding the poetic ...
... metre , accompanied by a certain peculiar and artificial phraseology called poetic diction thus begetting that exaggerated antithesis between poetry and prose with which our language is still infected . Instead of re- garding the poetic ...
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... metre itself to certain fixed va- rieties and methods of versification , which the older poets , who did not so much ... metre . The best poetry of the age was , accordingly , rather wit or reflexion expressed in metre than real poetry ...
... metre itself to certain fixed va- rieties and methods of versification , which the older poets , who did not so much ... metre . The best poetry of the age was , accordingly , rather wit or reflexion expressed in metre than real poetry ...
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... metre or verse . The rationale of the use of metre consists in this , that it provides for the reader or hearer a succession of minute pleasurable surprises apart from and independent of the emotion produced by the matter for which it ...
... metre or verse . The rationale of the use of metre consists in this , that it provides for the reader or hearer a succession of minute pleasurable surprises apart from and independent of the emotion produced by the matter for which it ...
Página 486
... metre , avail- ing itself , as it were , of a device sanctioned by an origin in some of the more splendid moments of the ancient human soul , then , in exchange for certain advantages , it submits to restrictions that come along with ...
... metre , avail- ing itself , as it were , of a device sanctioned by an origin in some of the more splendid moments of the ancient human soul , then , in exchange for certain advantages , it submits to restrictions that come along with ...
Página 487
... metre and rhyme . They do not im- pair the work of intellectual invention , but rather assist it , and render it capable of a more exquisite class of performances than would otherwise be possible . In prose , however musical , the ...
... metre and rhyme . They do not im- pair the work of intellectual invention , but rather assist it , and render it capable of a more exquisite class of performances than would otherwise be possible . In prose , however musical , the ...
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Página 175 - ... teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Página 175 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 479 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Página 501 - twas pastime to be bound Within the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground; Pleased if some Souls (for such there needs must be) Who have felt the weight of too much liberty, Should find brief solace there, as I have found.
Página 176 - I had), and been counted happy to be born in such a place of philosophic freedom, as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought ; that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits ; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian.
Página 119 - Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven, If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you ; for ye are A beauty, and a mystery, and create G In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.
Página 493 - All shod with steel, We hissed along the polished ice in games Confederate, imitative of the chase" And woodland pleasures, - the resounding horn, The pack loud chiming, and the hunted hare.
Página 500 - Then up I rose, And dragged to earth, both branch and bough with crash And merciless ravage, and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being...
Página 550 - That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet. Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside; And I shall know him when we meet; And we shall sit at endless feast, Enjoying each the other's good.
Página 175 - There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion or deportment be taught our youth but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of.