Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and OpinionsLeavitt, Lord and Company, 1834 - 351 pagina's |
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Pagina 11
... possess . My judgment was stronger than were my powers of realizing its dictates ; and the faults of my language , though indeed partly owing to a wrong choice of subjects , and the desire of giving a poetic coloring to abstract and ...
... possess . My judgment was stronger than were my powers of realizing its dictates ; and the faults of my language , though indeed partly owing to a wrong choice of subjects , and the desire of giving a poetic coloring to abstract and ...
Pagina 14
... possess a reality for him , and inspire an actual friendship as of a man for a man . His very admiration is the wind which fans and feeds his hope . The poems themselves assume the properties of flesh and blood . To recite , to extol ...
... possess a reality for him , and inspire an actual friendship as of a man for a man . His very admiration is the wind which fans and feeds his hope . The poems themselves assume the properties of flesh and blood . To recite , to extol ...
Pagina 19
... possesses the genuine power , and claims the name of essential poetry . Second , that whatever lines can be translated into other words of the same language , without diminution of their significance , either in sense or association ...
... possesses the genuine power , and claims the name of essential poetry . Second , that whatever lines can be translated into other words of the same language , without diminution of their significance , either in sense or association ...
Pagina 24
... possess singly . Cold and phlegmatic in their own nature , like damp hay , they heat and inflame by coacervation ; or , like bees , they become restless and irritable through the increased temperature of collected multitudes . Hence the ...
... possess singly . Cold and phlegmatic in their own nature , like damp hay , they heat and inflame by coacervation ; or , like bees , they become restless and irritable through the increased temperature of collected multitudes . Hence the ...
Pagina 25
... possess more than mere talent , ( or the faculty of appropriating and applying the knowledge of others , ) yet still want something of the creative and self - sufficing power of absolute genius . For this reason , therefore , they are ...
... possess more than mere talent , ( or the faculty of appropriating and applying the knowledge of others , ) yet still want something of the creative and self - sufficing power of absolute genius . For this reason , therefore , they are ...
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Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gedeeltelijke weergave - 1834 |
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Pagina 172 - The primary IMAGINATION I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
Pagina 179 - The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings th^. whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and, (as it were,) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination.
Pagina 27 - Was it the proud full sail of his great verse, Bound for the prize of all too precious you, That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse, Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew? Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead?
Pagina 173 - Fancy, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with but fixities and definites. The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space, while it is blended with, and modified by, that empirical phenomenon of the will which we express by the word choice. But equally with the ordinary memory the fancy must receive all its materials ready made from the law of association.
Pagina 276 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Pagina 184 - Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace...
Pagina 12 - ... bring up, so as to escape his censure. I learned from him that poetry, even that of the loftiest and, seemingly, that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science ; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive, causes. In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word...
Pagina 275 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy ! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy ; But he beholds the light, and whence it flows ; He sees it in his joy ! The youth who daily further from the east Must travel, still is nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
Pagina 269 - The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free : But we are pressed by heavy laws ; And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad of yore.
Pagina 246 - He looked — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy. The clouds were touched, And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable love.