Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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Pagina 8
... poetry ; but it is the truth of madness . The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false . After the first sup ... poetry . Men will judge and compare ; but they will not create . They will talk about the old poets , and comment on ...
... poetry ; but it is the truth of madness . The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false . After the first sup ... poetry . Men will judge and compare ; but they will not create . They will talk about the old poets , and comment on ...
Pagina 9
... poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age . As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions ... poet calls up grow fainter and fainter . We cannot unite the incompatible advantages of reality and deception , the ...
... poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age . As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions ... poet calls up grow fainter and fainter . We cannot unite the incompatible advantages of reality and deception , the ...
Pagina 10
... poet of later times who has been distinguished by the ex- cellence of his Latin verse . The genius of Petrarch was ... poetry as the flower - pots of a hot- house to the growth of oaks . That the author of the Paradise Lost should have ...
... poet of later times who has been distinguished by the ex- cellence of his Latin verse . The genius of Petrarch was ... poetry as the flower - pots of a hot- house to the growth of oaks . That the author of the Paradise Lost should have ...
Pagina 11
... poetry of Milton . The public has long been agreed as to the merit of the most remarkable passages , the incomparable harmony of the numbers , and the excellence of that style , which no rival has been able to equal , and no parodist to ...
... poetry of Milton . The public has long been agreed as to the merit of the most remarkable passages , the incomparable harmony of the numbers , and the excellence of that style , which no rival has been able to equal , and no parodist to ...
Pagina 12
... poetry . The expression in general means nothing : but , ap- plied to the writings of Milton , it is most appropriate . His poetry acts like an incantation . Its merit lies less in its obvious meaning than in its occult power . There ...
... poetry . The expression in general means nothing : but , ap- plied to the writings of Milton , it is most appropriate . His poetry acts like an incantation . Its merit lies less in its obvious meaning than in its occult power . There ...
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