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... philosophers and inspired critics of a time nearer our own . It recalls the Phædrus and the Ion ; it anticipates the utterance of a still more kindred spirit , the Defence of Poetry by Shelley . Philosopher as he was , Sidney arranges ...
... philosophers and inspired critics of a time nearer our own . It recalls the Phædrus and the Ion ; it anticipates the utterance of a still more kindred spirit , the Defence of Poetry by Shelley . Philosopher as he was , Sidney arranges ...
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... philosopher and the historian . But neither of these flies so straight to his mark as the poet . The one gives precepts that fire no heart to action ; the other gives examples without the precepts that should interpret and con- trol ...
... philosopher and the historian . But neither of these flies so straight to his mark as the poet . The one gives precepts that fire no heart to action ; the other gives examples without the precepts that should interpret and con- trol ...
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... philosophers , in par- ticular Fichte and Hegel , to see its full significance ; and Carlyle was the earliest writer in this country 1 Carlyle , Miscellanies , iii . 292 , 293 . to make it his own . It is manifest that POETRY AND ...
... philosophers , in par- ticular Fichte and Hegel , to see its full significance ; and Carlyle was the earliest writer in this country 1 Carlyle , Miscellanies , iii . 292 , 293 . to make it his own . It is manifest that POETRY AND ...
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... philosophers used to the defacing of it , with great danger of civil war among the muses . And first , truly to all them that professing learning inveigh against poetry may justly be objected , that they go very near to ungratefulness ...
... philosophers used to the defacing of it , with great danger of civil war among the muses . And first , truly to all them that professing learning inveigh against poetry may justly be objected , that they go very near to ungratefulness ...
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... philosophers of Greece durst not a long time appear to the world but under the masks of poets . So Thales , Empedocles , and Parmenides sang their natural philosophy in verses : so did Pythagoras and Phocylides their moral counsels : so ...
... philosophers of Greece durst not a long time appear to the world but under the masks of poets . So Thales , Empedocles , and Parmenides sang their natural philosophy in verses : so did Pythagoras and Phocylides their moral counsels : so ...
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Page xlvii - All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned: he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page 133 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 126 - O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind ! farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, th...
Page 102 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Page 163 - For he not only beholds intensely the present as it is, and discovers those laws according to which present things ought to be ordered, but he beholds the future in the present, and his thoughts are the germs of the flower and the fruit of latest time.
Page 124 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or, in the night, imagining some fear.
Page 87 - ... wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and without emotion. Their courtship was void of fondness, and their lamentation of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had never been said before.
Page 23 - But he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the wellenchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner...
Page 8 - Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
Page 169 - The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.