Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volumen2R. Fenner, 1817 - 309 páginas |
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... moral or intellectual , ought to be the ultimate end , yet this will distinguish the cha racter of the author , not the class to which the work belongs . Blest indeed is that state of society , in which the immediate purpose would be ...
... moral or intellectual , ought to be the ultimate end , yet this will distinguish the cha racter of the author , not the class to which the work belongs . Blest indeed is that state of society , in which the immediate purpose would be ...
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... moral account . Instead of doing as Ariosto , and as , still more offensively , Wieland has done , instead of degrading and deforming passion into appetite , the trials of love into the struggles of concupiscence ; Shakspeare has here ...
... moral account . Instead of doing as Ariosto , and as , still more offensively , Wieland has done , instead of degrading and deforming passion into appetite , the trials of love into the struggles of concupiscence ; Shakspeare has here ...
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... the tongue , Which SHAKSPEARE spake ; the faith and morals hold , Which MILTON held . In every thing we are sprung Of earth's first blood , have titles manifold ! WORDSWORTH . CHAPTER XVI . Striking points of difference between the Poets ...
... the tongue , Which SHAKSPEARE spake ; the faith and morals hold , Which MILTON held . In every thing we are sprung Of earth's first blood , have titles manifold ! WORDSWORTH . CHAPTER XVI . Striking points of difference between the Poets ...
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... moral effect , which persons of elevated rank and of superior refinement oftentimes derive from a happy imitation of the rude unpolished man- ners and discourse of their inferiors . For the pleasure so derived may be traced to three ex ...
... moral effect , which persons of elevated rank and of superior refinement oftentimes derive from a happy imitation of the rude unpolished man- ners and discourse of their inferiors . For the pleasure so derived may be traced to three ex ...
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... merely ; much less to make us laugh by wry - faces , accidents of jargon , slang phrases for the day , or the clothing of common - place morals in metaphors drawn from the shops poetry must be clothed with generic attributes , with the 41.
... merely ; much less to make us laugh by wry - faces , accidents of jargon , slang phrases for the day , or the clothing of common - place morals in metaphors drawn from the shops poetry must be clothed with generic attributes , with the 41.
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Página 12 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Página 67 - But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A...
Página 52 - Accordingly, such a language, arising out of repeated experience and regular feelings, is a more permanent, and a far more philosophical language, than that which is frequently substituted for it by Poets...
Página 38 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater simplicity, and, consequently, may be more accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated; because the manners of rural life germinate from those elementary feelings,...
Página 2 - In the one, the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real.
Página 18 - It has been before observed that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion...
Página 139 - While he was talking thus, the lonely place, The old Man's shape, and speech, all troubled me: In my mind's eye I seemed to see him pace About the weary moors continually, Wandering about alone and silently.
Página 174 - And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God who is our home: 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.
Página 20 - ... with him: Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew : Nor did I wonder at the lily's white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose ; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you ; you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play : XCIX.
Página 64 - And it would be a most easy task to prove to him, that not only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose, but likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the best poems will be found to be strictly the language of prose when prose is well written.