Treatises on Poetry, Modern Romance, and Rhetoric: Being the Articles Contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 7th EdBlack, 1839 - 381 pagina's |
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Pagina 3
... period of our existence . Immersed in business , which , if it sharpen the edge of intellect , leaves the heart barren ; toiling after material wealth or power , or struggling with fortune for existence ; seeing selfishness reflected ...
... period of our existence . Immersed in business , which , if it sharpen the edge of intellect , leaves the heart barren ; toiling after material wealth or power , or struggling with fortune for existence ; seeing selfishness reflected ...
Pagina 24
... of men . In a half - civilized state of society , too , life is a romance , a tissue of adventures , powerfully exciting the feelings of fear , wonder , and enthusiasm . In more refined periods these 24 TREATISE ON POETRY .
... of men . In a half - civilized state of society , too , life is a romance , a tissue of adventures , powerfully exciting the feelings of fear , wonder , and enthusiasm . In more refined periods these 24 TREATISE ON POETRY .
Pagina 25
... periods these sources of excitement cease ; and , even where they exist , they are veiled by the caution which the fear of ridicule pro- duces , a restraint which in the ruder periods of society is comparatively unknown . Hence both the ...
... periods these sources of excitement cease ; and , even where they exist , they are veiled by the caution which the fear of ridicule pro- duces , a restraint which in the ruder periods of society is comparatively unknown . Hence both the ...
Pagina 27
... periods is undoubted . As the expression in language , of that feeling of excitement and elevation produced either by moral or material grandeur or beauty , it had its seat and origin in human nature itself , and in its simplest form ...
... periods is undoubted . As the expression in language , of that feeling of excitement and elevation produced either by moral or material grandeur or beauty , it had its seat and origin in human nature itself , and in its simplest form ...
Pagina 33
... period of Hebrew literature . They had fallen upon the evil days of their country , and the influence which its misfortunes and degradation produced on the mind , is peculiarly visible in the melancholy strains of Jeremiah . " His ...
... period of Hebrew literature . They had fallen upon the evil days of their country , and the influence which its misfortunes and degradation produced on the mind , is peculiarly visible in the melancholy strains of Jeremiah . " His ...
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Pagina 25 - Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a magic lantern produces an illusion on the eye of the body. And, as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age.
Pagina 200 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Pagina 3 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Pagina 13 - The law under which the processes of Fancy are carried on is as capricious as the accidents of things, and the effects are surprising, playful, ludicrous, amusing, tender, or pathetic, as the objects happen to be appositely produced or fortunately combined. Fancy depends upon the rapidity and profusion with which she scatters her thoughts and images ; trusting that their number, and the felicity with which they are linked together, will make amends for the want of individual value...
Pagina 54 - Hesperus ! thou bringest all good things — Home to the weary, to the hungry cheer, To the young bird the parent's brooding wings, The welcome stall to the...
Pagina 115 - Mais elle était du monde où les plus belles choses Ont le pire destin ; Et rose elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses, L'espace d'un matin.
Pagina 2 - POETRY is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to metre. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication, of truth ; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.
Pagina 13 - But the imagination is conscious of an indestructible dominion ; the soul may fall away from it, not being able to sustain its grandeur ; but if once felt and acknowledged, by no act of any other faculty of the mind can it be relaxed, impaired, or diminished. Fancy is given to quicken and to beguile the temporal part of our nature, imagination to incite and support the eternal.
Pagina 34 - ... .Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, Son of man, and say to the wind, thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
Pagina 358 - It is rapid harmony, exactly adjusted to the sense. It is vehement reasoning, without any appearance of art. It is disdain, anger, boldness, freedom, involved in a continual stream of argument. And of all human productions, the orations of Demosthenes present to us the models which approach the nearest to perfection.