The Beauties of Modern Literature, in Verse and Prose: To which is Prefixed, a Preliminary View of the Literature of the AgeSherwood, Jones, and Company, 1824 - 484 páginas The preliminary view is chiefly a comparison of classical and romantic poetry. |
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... opinion , we know few writers of the present day will feel disposed to question . Those who wanted genius , on the contrary , left nothing worthy of selection ; so that the last century , b particularly the early part of it , was , in ...
... opinion , we know few writers of the present day will feel disposed to question . Those who wanted genius , on the contrary , left nothing worthy of selection ; so that the last century , b particularly the early part of it , was , in ...
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... opinion began to prevail , that reason had hitherto exercised , or , rather , usurped an unlawful controul over the feel- ings , in works of imagination . It was maintained , that the poet should commune with the secret sym- pathies and ...
... opinion began to prevail , that reason had hitherto exercised , or , rather , usurped an unlawful controul over the feel- ings , in works of imagination . It was maintained , that the poet should commune with the secret sym- pathies and ...
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... opinion . Helvetius thought differently ; while those who maintain that poetry is more ancient than prose , that it is , in fact , the language of the savage state , would make us all born poets . With neither of the two last theories ...
... opinion . Helvetius thought differently ; while those who maintain that poetry is more ancient than prose , that it is , in fact , the language of the savage state , would make us all born poets . With neither of the two last theories ...
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... opinion of Horace , that the poet is the child of nature alone , they go farther , and maintain , that who- ever is born a poet , must be a poet , whether he will or will not - that he can lisp only in numbers , and that whatever he ...
... opinion of Horace , that the poet is the child of nature alone , they go farther , and maintain , that who- ever is born a poet , must be a poet , whether he will or will not - that he can lisp only in numbers , and that whatever he ...
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... opinion , every man is a patriot when his country requires it , who is not , at heart , a slave , and every man a slave who is not , at heart , a patriot ; whence it follows , that a country where patriotic virtue has no existence ...
... opinion , every man is a patriot when his country requires it , who is not , at heart , a slave , and every man a slave who is not , at heart , a patriot ; whence it follows , that a country where patriotic virtue has no existence ...
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Página xviii - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise! See the snakes that they rear How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Página xviii - Now strike the golden lyre again: A louder yet, and yet a louder strain ! Break his bands of sleep asunder And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark ! the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge...
Página 245 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O no ; it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests, and is never shaken ; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Página 128 - ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time ! I...
Página 480 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends...
Página 130 - I am weary in yon skies To watch thy fading fire; Test of all sumless agonies, Behold not me expire. My lips, that speak thy dirge of death, — Their rounded gasp and gurgling breath To see thou shalt not boast. The eclipse of Nature spreads my pall, The majesty of darkness shall Receive my parting ghost!
Página 129 - Tis mercy bids thee go : For thou ten thousand thousand years Hast seen the tide of human tears, That shall no longer flow.
Página 245 - O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Página 50 - The lark, his lay who thrill'd all day, Sits hush'd his partner nigh ; Breeze, bird, and flower, confess the hour, But where is County Guy ? " The village maid steals through the shade, Her shepherd's suit to hear ; To beauty shy, by lattice high, Sings high-born Cavalier.
Página xxix - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...