Letters to Lord Byron on a Question of Poetical Criticism: To which are Now First Added the Letter to Mr. Campbell, as Far as Regards Poetical Criticism : and the Answer to the Writer in the Quarterly Review, as Far as They Relate to the Same Subject, Second Editions, Together with an Answer to Some Objections, and Further IllustrationsHurst, Robinson, and Company, 1822 - 217 páginas |
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... lose almost all its beauty , if it were less in detail . 66 * The first book of the Iliad ; the translation of which by POPE has been so often quoted , " As when the moon , " & c . But how different , how minute is his description , [ 15 ]
... lose almost all its beauty , if it were less in detail . 66 * The first book of the Iliad ; the translation of which by POPE has been so often quoted , " As when the moon , " & c . But how different , how minute is his description , [ 15 ]
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... Iliad , particularly where THE HELMET becomes most inte- resting : Need I mention the parting between HECTOR and ANDROMACHE ? Every heart has been smitten with the affecting incidents of the passage , since HOMER existed . The child is ...
... Iliad , particularly where THE HELMET becomes most inte- resting : Need I mention the parting between HECTOR and ANDROMACHE ? Every heart has been smitten with the affecting incidents of the passage , since HOMER existed . The child is ...
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... Iliad does from its loftier passions . But do you really think that the catalogue of the Grecian ships is as poetical as the animated horses of Achilles ; and do you think HOMER would have been so great a poet , if he had been only a ...
... Iliad does from its loftier passions . But do you really think that the catalogue of the Grecian ships is as poetical as the animated horses of Achilles ; and do you think HOMER would have been so great a poet , if he had been only a ...
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... Iliad or Odyssey , are more poetical , whose chief beauty depends on images from ART or NATURE ? Yes . or no ? If you say , " the pas 66 sages are more poetical that describe images from " nature , and passions , than those that ...
... Iliad or Odyssey , are more poetical , whose chief beauty depends on images from ART or NATURE ? Yes . or no ? If you say , " the pas 66 sages are more poetical that describe images from " nature , and passions , than those that ...
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... Iliad . " The poems are " totally different , but both are master - pieces in " their kind . " Nor is the Rape of the Lock to be compared with the Paradise Lost ; but when uncertain claims are made , these works are to be taken into ...
... Iliad . " The poems are " totally different , but both are master - pieces in " their kind . " Nor is the Rape of the Lock to be compared with the Paradise Lost ; but when uncertain claims are made , these works are to be taken into ...
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abstractedly ACHILLES adapted to poetry admitted affecting answer appears arguments artificial beautiful in nature blue bunting BOWLES BowLES's bust called CAMPBELL canal circumstances CowPER's D'ISRAELI derived described Edinburgh Review epic poem equally execution exquisite external nature feelings genius Georgics heart highest HOMER HORACE Hounslow Heath human ideas Iliad images drawn images from art imagination in-door nature Lord BYRON Lordship Macbeth manners MILTON never object observe opinion orders of poetry Paddington painting Paradise Lost passage passions pathetic Philoctetes picture picturesque pigsty poet poetical beauty poetical character poetical criticism poetical sublimity POPE POPE's principles of poetry proposition proved pyramids Quarterly Review quibbles quoted racter Rape reader Roman holiday sails Salisbury Plain satires SHAKESPEARE shew SOPHOCLES speak spoken sublime and beautiful sublime or beautiful super-artificial temples THEOCRITUS thing thought tical tion tower trees UNWIN's needle Venice waves winds words writer
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Página 78 - WHO is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah ? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength ? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
Página 36 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible...
Página 91 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
Página 97 - He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away; He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay: There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday.
Página 48 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Página 77 - Their fluid bodies half dissolv'd in light, Loose to the wind their airy garments flew, Thin glittering textures of the filmy dew, Dipt in the richest tincture of the skies, Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes ; While every beam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings.
Página 39 - I am now to examine Paradise Lost, a poem which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place, and with respect to performance, the second, among the productions of the human mind.
Página 59 - Were with his heart, and that was far away; He reck'd not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother— he their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday ! — All this rush'd with his blood— Shall he expire And unavenged ? — Arise ! ye Goths, and glut your ire...
Página 94 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Página 59 - I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.