Letters to Lord Byron on a Question of Poetical Criticism: To which are Now First Added the Letter to Mr. Campbell, as Far as Regards Poetical Criticism : and the Answer to the Writer in the Quarterly Review, as Far as They Relate to the Same Subject, Second Editions, Together with an Answer to Some Objections, and Further Illustrations |
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... poetry , as the horses of ACHILLES in HOMER . I will only observe , that neither HOMER himself , nor his trans- lator , could make a " silk purse of a sow's ear ! " your Lordship had only kept this circumstance in recollection , [ 8 ]
... poetry , as the horses of ACHILLES in HOMER . I will only observe , that neither HOMER himself , nor his trans- lator , could make a " silk purse of a sow's ear ! " your Lordship had only kept this circumstance in recollection , [ 8 ]
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... circumstance in recollection , you would have seen , that your plea- sant pictures of " the Hog in the high wind , " the footman's livery , the Paddington Canal , and the pigsties , the horse - pond , the slop - basin , or any OTHER ...
... circumstance in recollection , you would have seen , that your plea- sant pictures of " the Hog in the high wind , " the footman's livery , the Paddington Canal , and the pigsties , the horse - pond , the slop - basin , or any OTHER ...
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... circumstances , ART might have a tran- sient triumph . Lord BYRON , however , must be heard . " There can be nothing more poetical in its aspect than the city of Venice : does this depend upon the sea , or the canals ? " The dirt and ...
... circumstances , ART might have a tran- sient triumph . Lord BYRON , however , must be heard . " There can be nothing more poetical in its aspect than the city of Venice : does this depend upon the sea , or the canals ? " The dirt and ...
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... circumstances of depression on one side , and exaltation , and a colouring , perhaps , somewhat partial , on the other , the general prin- ciple is not affected , that " what is sublime or beau- " tiful in works of nature , is more ...
... circumstances of depression on one side , and exaltation , and a colouring , perhaps , somewhat partial , on the other , the general prin- ciple is not affected , that " what is sublime or beau- " tiful in works of nature , is more ...
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... circumstances of light and shade , glitter- ing towers or cupolas , have an effect of making us entirely overlook the work of art , whilst their most picturesque features blend with the distance into the beauties of NATURE . But the ...
... circumstances of light and shade , glitter- ing towers or cupolas , have an effect of making us entirely overlook the work of art , whilst their most picturesque features blend with the distance into the beauties of NATURE . But the ...
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Page 91 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
Page 97 - He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away; He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay: There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday.
Page 48 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 77 - Their fluid bodies half dissolv'd in light, Loose to the wind their airy garments flew, Thin glittering textures of the filmy dew, Dipt in the richest tincture of the skies, Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes ; While every beam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings.
Page 39 - I am now to examine Paradise Lost, a poem which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place, and with respect to performance, the second, among the productions of the human mind.
Page 59 - Were with his heart, and that was far away; He reck'd not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother— he their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday ! — All this rush'd with his blood— Shall he expire And unavenged ? — Arise ! ye Goths, and glut your ire...
Page 94 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 59 - I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.