Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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... strange to assert , that pleasure , and not truth , was the immediate object of the prophet . In short , whatever specific import we attach to the word , poetry , there will be found involved in it , as a necessary conse- quence , that ...
... strange to assert , that pleasure , and not truth , was the immediate object of the prophet . In short , whatever specific import we attach to the word , poetry , there will be found involved in it , as a necessary conse- quence , that ...
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... strange , As fire converts to fire the things it burns , As we our food into our nature change . From their gross matter she abstracts their forms , And draws a kind of quintessence from things ; Which to her proper nature she ...
... strange , As fire converts to fire the things it burns , As we our food into our nature change . From their gross matter she abstracts their forms , And draws a kind of quintessence from things ; Which to her proper nature she ...
Page 72
... it . " If disproportioning the emphasis we read these stanzas so as to make the rhymes percep- tible , even tri - syllable rhymes could scarcely produce an equal sense of oddity and strange- ness , as we feel here in finding rhymes at 72.
... it . " If disproportioning the emphasis we read these stanzas so as to make the rhymes percep- tible , even tri - syllable rhymes could scarcely produce an equal sense of oddity and strange- ness , as we feel here in finding rhymes at 72.
Page 73
... strange power of spreading awe around them " ) I would ask the poet whether he would not have felt an abrupt down - fall in these verses from the preceding stanza ? " The ancient spirit is not dead ; Old times , thought I , are ...
... strange power of spreading awe around them " ) I would ask the poet whether he would not have felt an abrupt down - fall in these verses from the preceding stanza ? " The ancient spirit is not dead ; Old times , thought I , are ...
Page 93
... strange and * over - whelm- * I had in my mind the striking but untranslatable epithet , which the celebrated Mendelssohn applied to the great founder of the Critical Philosophy " Der alleszermalmende KANT , " i . e . the all ...
... strange and * over - whelm- * I had in my mind the striking but untranslatable epithet , which the celebrated Mendelssohn applied to the great founder of the Critical Philosophy " Der alleszermalmende KANT , " i . e . the all ...
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