Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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... poet to the drama , was secretly working in him , prompting him by a series and never broken chain of imagery , always vivid and because un- broken , often minute ; by the highest effort of the picturesque in words , of which words are ...
... poet to the drama , was secretly working in him , prompting him by a series and never broken chain of imagery , always vivid and because un- broken , often minute ; by the highest effort of the picturesque in words , of which words are ...
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... poet's ever active mind has dedu- · ced from , or connected with , the imagery and the incidents . The reader is forced into too much action to sympathize with the merely passive of . our nature . As little can a mind thus roused and ...
... poet's ever active mind has dedu- · ced from , or connected with , the imagery and the incidents . The reader is forced into too much action to sympathize with the merely passive of . our nature . As little can a mind thus roused and ...
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... poet's own spirit , " Which shoots its being through earth , sea , and air . ” In the two following lines for ... poets . It is by this , that he still gives a dignity and a passion to the ob- jects which he presents . Unaided by any pre ...
... poet's own spirit , " Which shoots its being through earth , sea , and air . ” In the two following lines for ... poets . It is by this , that he still gives a dignity and a passion to the ob- jects which he presents . Unaided by any pre ...
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... poet gives us the liveliest image of succession with the feeling of simultaneousness ! With this he breaketh from the sweet embrace Of those fair aims , that held him to her heart , And homeward through the dark lawns runs apace : Look ...
... poet gives us the liveliest image of succession with the feeling of simultaneousness ! With this he breaketh from the sweet embrace Of those fair aims , that held him to her heart , And homeward through the dark lawns runs apace : Look ...
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... poet , without being at the same time a profound philosopher . For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge , human thoughts , human passions , emotions , language . In Shakspeare's poems , the creative power , and ...
... poet , without being at the same time a profound philosopher . For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge , human thoughts , human passions , emotions , language . In Shakspeare's poems , the creative power , and ...
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