Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative of Those First Requisites of Their Art; with Markings of the Best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in Answer to the Question, "What is Poetry?"Smith, Elder and Company, 1846 - 345 pages |
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... illustrated and impressed by the poetic faculty . Nay , the simplest truth is often so beautiful and impressive of itself , that one of the greatest proofs of his genius consists in his leaving it to stand alone , illustrated by nothing ...
... illustrated and impressed by the poetic faculty . Nay , the simplest truth is often so beautiful and impressive of itself , that one of the greatest proofs of his genius consists in his leaving it to stand alone , illustrated by nothing ...
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... illustrated . Passing by a foul ditch , you are simply disgusted , and turn aside : but imagine yourself crossing a mountain , and coming upon a hot and slimy valley in which a pestilential vapour ascends from a city , the inhabitants ...
... illustrated . Passing by a foul ditch , you are simply disgusted , and turn aside : but imagine yourself crossing a mountain , and coming upon a hot and slimy valley in which a pestilential vapour ascends from a city , the inhabitants ...
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... illustrated , and the feeling of too much minuteness and close- ness in the very distance . Who is to paint the tender locks " every one , " and the whisper of every little breath ? " 66 Upon the top of all his lofty crest A bunch of ...
... illustrated , and the feeling of too much minuteness and close- ness in the very distance . Who is to paint the tender locks " every one , " and the whisper of every little breath ? " 66 Upon the top of all his lofty crest A bunch of ...
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... Illustrated by numerous Plates. THE OXFORD GRADUATE. - "MODERN PAINTERS." Volume the First. By A Graduate op Oxford. A Now Edition, revised by the Author, being the Third. In imperial 8vo., uniform with Vol. II. The Third Volume of this ...
... Illustrated by numerous Plates. THE OXFORD GRADUATE. - "MODERN PAINTERS." Volume the First. By A Graduate op Oxford. A Now Edition, revised by the Author, being the Third. In imperial 8vo., uniform with Vol. II. The Third Volume of this ...
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... Illustrated by numerous Plates . THE OXFORD GRADUATE . " MODERN PAINTERS . " VOLUME THE FIRST . By A GRADUATE OF OXFORD . A New Edition , revised by the Author , being the THIRD . In imperial 8vo . , uniform with Vol . II . The THIRD ...
... Illustrated by numerous Plates . THE OXFORD GRADUATE . " MODERN PAINTERS . " VOLUME THE FIRST . By A GRADUATE OF OXFORD . A New Edition , revised by the Author , being the THIRD . In imperial 8vo . , uniform with Vol . II . The THIRD ...
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Page 262 - And all their echoes, mourn : The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays...
Page 238 - Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 189 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 340 - Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
Page 343 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...
Page 247 - Hard by, a cottage chimney smokes From betwixt two aged oaks, Where Corydon and Thyrsis, met, Are at their savoury dinner set Of herbs, and other country messes Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses...
Page 339 - MY HEART aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Page 265 - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks; Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes That on the green turf suck the honeyed showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Page 248 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Page 286 - twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware ! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.