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Page 75
... taste for the picturesque . Take , as a specimen , the opening description in Marmion . THE CASTLE . " Day set on Norham's castled steep , And Tweed's fair river , broad and deep , And Cheviot's mountains lone ; The battled towers , the ...
... taste for the picturesque . Take , as a specimen , the opening description in Marmion . THE CASTLE . " Day set on Norham's castled steep , And Tweed's fair river , broad and deep , And Cheviot's mountains lone ; The battled towers , the ...
Page 91
... Taste and Imagination ; the voice of Nature and of God , humanized by being echoed back from the understanding hearts of Priests and Seers ! Of course this could not be the popular poetry of the day . Being eminently the pro- duct of ...
... Taste and Imagination ; the voice of Nature and of God , humanized by being echoed back from the understanding hearts of Priests and Seers ! Of course this could not be the popular poetry of the day . Being eminently the pro- duct of ...
Page 92
... tastes , in order to attain firmness , depth , or permanent beauty . And they being , as I have said , the pilot - minds of their time , their works enjoy a growing , though not a rapidly growing , popu- larity . Coleridge , in ...
... tastes , in order to attain firmness , depth , or permanent beauty . And they being , as I have said , the pilot - minds of their time , their works enjoy a growing , though not a rapidly growing , popu- larity . Coleridge , in ...
Page 99
... Taste has received from them . To those who cannot understand the voice of Nature or Poetry , unless it speak in apothegms , and tag each story with a moral , I have nothing to say . My own greatest obligation to Coleridge I have ...
... Taste has received from them . To those who cannot understand the voice of Nature or Poetry , unless it speak in apothegms , and tag each story with a moral , I have nothing to say . My own greatest obligation to Coleridge I have ...
Page 101
... tastes are refined by admiring what another has created . Now , since I esteem Words- worth as superior in originality and philosophic unity of thought , to the other poets I have been discussing , I give him the highest place , though ...
... tastes are refined by admiring what another has created . Now , since I esteem Words- worth as superior in originality and philosophic unity of thought , to the other poets I have been discussing , I give him the highest place , though ...
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