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?" |
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... seems talking of love— Parea che l'erba le fiorisse intorno , E d'amor ragionasse quella riva ! — Orlando Innamorato , Canto iii . or in the voluptuous homage paid to the sleeping Imogen by the very light in the chamber and the reaction ...
... seems talking of love— Parea che l'erba le fiorisse intorno , E d'amor ragionasse quella riva ! — Orlando Innamorato , Canto iii . or in the voluptuous homage paid to the sleeping Imogen by the very light in the chamber and the reaction ...
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... seems than each , and each than each seems smoother . An abundance of examples from his poetry will be found in the volume before us . His beauty re- volves on itself with conscious loveliness . And Coleridge is worthy to be named with ...
... seems than each , and each than each seems smoother . An abundance of examples from his poetry will be found in the volume before us . His beauty re- volves on itself with conscious loveliness . And Coleridge is worthy to be named with ...
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... seems so determined to resent as this want of respect for its time and trouble . The world is too rich in books to endure it . Even true poets have died of this Writer's Evil . Trifling ones have sur- vived , with scarcely any ...
... seems so determined to resent as this want of respect for its time and trouble . The world is too rich in books to endure it . Even true poets have died of this Writer's Evil . Trifling ones have sur- vived , with scarcely any ...
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... Seem'd threaten'd - though unseen to mortal eye . Unus'd to fear - he summon'd all his soul , And stood collected in himself - and whole : Not long.- But for a crowning specimen of variety of pause and accent , apart from emotion ...
... Seem'd threaten'd - though unseen to mortal eye . Unus'd to fear - he summon'd all his soul , And stood collected in himself - and whole : Not long.- But for a crowning specimen of variety of pause and accent , apart from emotion ...
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... seems to be Of the huge , broad - breāsted , ōld oak tree . The night is chill , the forest bare ; Is it the wind that moaneth bleak ? ( This " bleak moaning " is a witch's ) There is not wind enough in the air To move away the ringlet ...
... seems to be Of the huge , broad - breāsted , ōld oak tree . The night is chill , the forest bare ; Is it the wind that moaneth bleak ? ( This " bleak moaning " is a witch's ) There is not wind enough in the air To move away the ringlet ...
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Page 265 - Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears: "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove ; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 298 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there.
Page 324 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seemed a splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven: — Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint.
Page 345 - 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 257 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook: And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true consent With planet, or with element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In scepter'd pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine; Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage.
Page 247 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 249 - 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 299 - Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not. Like a high-born maiden in a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden soul in secret hour With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower. Like a glow-worm golden in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view.
Page 172 - That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 181 - That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide : And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecate's team, From the presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream, Now are frolic ; not a mouse Shall disturb this hallow'd house : I am sent with broom before, To sweep the dust behind the door.