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Page 442
... greater , that my compositions , instead of forming a balance , appeared rather an interpolation of heterogeneous matter . Mr. Wordsworth added two or three poems written in his own character , in the impassioned , lofty , and sustained ...
... greater , that my compositions , instead of forming a balance , appeared rather an interpolation of heterogeneous matter . Mr. Wordsworth added two or three poems written in his own character , in the impassioned , lofty , and sustained ...
Page 446
... greater part of the poems themselves . Mr. Wordsworth in his recent collection has , I find , degraded this prefatory dis- quisition to the end of his second volume , to be read or not at the reader's choice . But he has not , as far as ...
... greater part of the poems themselves . Mr. Wordsworth in his recent collection has , I find , degraded this prefatory dis- quisition to the end of his second volume , to be read or not at the reader's choice . But he has not , as far as ...
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... greater poet than Milton , as being a great- er philosopher ; I think that he showed the philosopher in his poetry too much to be the best of poets , especially in the Paradiso A poet should avoid science , which is ever in a process of ...
... greater poet than Milton , as being a great- er philosopher ; I think that he showed the philosopher in his poetry too much to be the best of poets , especially in the Paradiso A poet should avoid science , which is ever in a process of ...
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... greater because unbetrayed , by the variation and va- rious harmonies of their metrical movement . Their measures , however , were not indebted for their variety to the introduction of new metres , such as have been attempted of late in ...
... greater because unbetrayed , by the variation and va- rious harmonies of their metrical movement . Their measures , however , were not indebted for their variety to the introduction of new metres , such as have been attempted of late in ...
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... greater and more various discriminations , for example , the Ionic for their heroic verses ; the Attic for their iambic ; and the two modes of the Doric for the lyric or sacerdotal , and the pastoral , the distinctions of which were ...
... greater and more various discriminations , for example , the Ionic for their heroic verses ; the Attic for their iambic ; and the two modes of the Doric for the lyric or sacerdotal , and the pastoral , the distinctions of which were ...
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Page 588 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Page 498 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 459 - No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Page 587 - 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 553 - Joyous as morning Thou art laughing and scorning ; Thou hast a nest for thy love and thy rest, And, though little troubled with sloth, Drunken Lark ! thou would'st be loth To be such a traveller as I. Happy, happy Liver, With a soul as strong as a mountain river Pouring out praise to the Almighty Giver...
Page 504 - In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening 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...
Page 457 - Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace...
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 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 588 - Nor man nor boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy ! Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither ; Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.