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... principles , or the summing - up and dis- tillation , of the whole body of his criticism . But that circle returns into itself and ends where it began ; and so it is well to read these few pages both before and arter the rest . The ...
... principles , or the summing - up and dis- tillation , of the whole body of his criticism . But that circle returns into itself and ends where it began ; and so it is well to read these few pages both before and arter the rest . The ...
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... principles , or the summing - up and dis- tillation , of the whole body of his criticism . But that circle returns into itself and ends where it began ; and so it is well to read these few pages both before and arter the rest . The ...
... principles , or the summing - up and dis- tillation , of the whole body of his criticism . But that circle returns into itself and ends where it began ; and so it is well to read these few pages both before and arter the rest . The ...
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... principles and the bungling way in which he applies them . His applications of his own doctrine , his particular criticisms on the work of other poets , are often loose , sometimes demon- strably wrong . With Coleridge it is the reverse ...
... principles and the bungling way in which he applies them . His applications of his own doctrine , his particular criticisms on the work of other poets , are often loose , sometimes demon- strably wrong . With Coleridge it is the reverse ...
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... principle of simply omitting from the old pieces of lyrical poetry which we have , those parts in which the whim or the bad taste of the author or the fashion of his age prevailed over his genius . You would be surprised at the number ...
... principle of simply omitting from the old pieces of lyrical poetry which we have , those parts in which the whim or the bad taste of the author or the fashion of his age prevailed over his genius . You would be surprised at the number ...
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... principle or cause of action in a work of such pure imagination . It ought to have had no more moral than the Arabian Nights ' tale of the merchant's sitting down to eat dates by the side of a well , and throwing the shells aside , and ...
... principle or cause of action in a work of such pure imagination . It ought to have had no more moral than the Arabian Nights ' tale of the merchant's sitting down to eat dates by the side of a well , and throwing the shells aside , and ...
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Page 33 - 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; Yet Morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that...
Page iv - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Page 154 - Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew: Nor did I wonder at the lilies white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd it winter still, and you away, As with your shadow I with these did play : XCIX.
Page 218 - Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say ' This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Page iv - The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
Page 70 - Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake.
Page 159 - Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast The sun ariseth in his majesty; Who doth the world so gloriously behold, That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold.
Page 83 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade...
Page 100 - For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay ; And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Page 153 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.