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... excellence aimed at , was to consist in the inte- resting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions , as would naturally accompany such situations , supposing them real . And real in this sense they have been to every ...
... excellence aimed at , was to consist in the inte- resting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions , as would naturally accompany such situations , supposing them real . And real in this sense they have been to every ...
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... excellence in works of imagination ; and of teaching , if possible , the duty and the advantages of respect for admitted genius , even when it pursues a path of its own making . Just consider what was the effect of all the scorn and ...
... excellence in works of imagination ; and of teaching , if possible , the duty and the advantages of respect for admitted genius , even when it pursues a path of its own making . Just consider what was the effect of all the scorn and ...
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... excellence to men whose unchristian acts of duplicity or cruelty are undenied and undeni- able -- of worse than human folly and wickedness to men , whom millions have regarded with reverential gratitude , and this in the way of mere ...
... excellence to men whose unchristian acts of duplicity or cruelty are undenied and undeni- able -- of worse than human folly and wickedness to men , whom millions have regarded with reverential gratitude , and this in the way of mere ...
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... excellence , should have shown itself blind to the merits of a body of poetry , in which the spirit of the age , in its noblest and most refined characteristics , is more amply and energetically manifested than in any other . When the ...
... excellence , should have shown itself blind to the merits of a body of poetry , in which the spirit of the age , in its noblest and most refined characteristics , is more amply and energetically manifested than in any other . When the ...
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... excellence of a particular poem is but an equivocal mark , and often a fallacious pledge , of genuine poetic power . We may perhaps remember the tale of the statuary , who had ac- quired considerable reputation for the legs of his ...
... excellence of a particular poem is but an equivocal mark , and often a fallacious pledge , of genuine poetic power . We may perhaps remember the tale of the statuary , who had ac- quired considerable reputation for the legs of his ...
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Page 582 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized. High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Page 734 - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome!
Page 581 - 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...
Page 555 - Oh ! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine ; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 520 - Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky; The dew shall weep thy fall tonight, For thou must die.
Page 442 - ... things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us; an inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes, yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.
Page 580 - Upon whose grassless floor of red-brown hue, By sheddings from the pining umbrage tinged Perennially — beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose decked With unrejoicing berries — ghostly Shapes May meet at noontide; Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight; Death the Skeleton And Time the Shadow ; — there to celebrate, As in a natural temple scattered o'er With altars undisturbed of mossy stone, United worship ; or in mute repose To lie, and listen to the mountain flood...
Page 530 - Scot,' exclaims the lance — Bear me to the heart of France, Is the longing of the Shield — Tell thy name, thou trembling Field ; Field of Death, where'er thou be, Groan thou with our victory ! Happy day, and mighty hour, When our Shepherd, in his power, Mailed and horsed, with lance and sword, To his ancestors restored, Like a re-appearing Star, Like a glory from afar, First shall head the flock of war...