Introductions to the Study of the Greek Classic Poets: Designed Principally for the Use of Young Persons at School and College |
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... passion pervades and quickens them ; and in them all it is the wild and heart - stricken Father - king that speaks alone . The first is Fancy ; the last is * Lear , Act III , Sc . 6 . Imagination . The one aggregates , the other as ...
... passion pervades and quickens them ; and in them all it is the wild and heart - stricken Father - king that speaks alone . The first is Fancy ; the last is * Lear , Act III , Sc . 6 . Imagination . The one aggregates , the other as ...
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... passion . In a scale of intellectual power , Fancy is indeed a lower faculty than the Imagina- tion , but it is also one different from it , as dif- ferent as juxta - position is from combination , as accumulation is from union . * - It ...
... passion . In a scale of intellectual power , Fancy is indeed a lower faculty than the Imagina- tion , but it is also one different from it , as dif- ferent as juxta - position is from combination , as accumulation is from union . * - It ...
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... on the probable amount of truth in metaphysical or religious systems ; the poet , taking his stand , as he did , upon the sure ground of human passion , addressed himself , nevertheless , to CLASSIC POETS 19 PAGANS .
... on the probable amount of truth in metaphysical or religious systems ; the poet , taking his stand , as he did , upon the sure ground of human passion , addressed himself , nevertheless , to CLASSIC POETS 19 PAGANS .
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... passion , addressed himself , nevertheless , to the common heart of his own countrymen of every rank and of every age . His object was to please and to captivate the minds of all ; and when he taught , his lessons were , for the most ...
... passion , addressed himself , nevertheless , to the common heart of his own countrymen of every rank and of every age . His object was to please and to captivate the minds of all ; and when he taught , his lessons were , for the most ...
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... passion for descending into the depths of the spiritual being of man . Hence , if there be fewer pictures for the mind's eye in the Northern poetry , it speaks more awfully to the conscience and to the affections of humanity , than that ...
... passion for descending into the depths of the spiritual being of man . Hence , if there be fewer pictures for the mind's eye in the Northern poetry , it speaks more awfully to the conscience and to the affections of humanity , than that ...
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Page 114 - All kind of arguments and question deep. All replication prompt, and reason strong, For his advantage still did wake and sleep. To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep, He had the dialect and different skill, 125 Catching all passions in his craft of will...
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Page 23 - Of doubt and bold denial hourly urged Amid the wrangling schools — a SPIRIT hung, Beautiful region ! o'er thy towns and farms, Statues and temples, and memorial tombs ; And emanations were perceived ; and acts Of immortality, in Nature's course, Exemplified by mysteries, that were felt As bonds, on grave philosopher imposed And armed warrior ; and in every grove A gay or pensive tenderness prevailed, When piety more awful had relaxed. ' Take, running river, take these locks of mine...
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