Letters to Lord Byron on a Question of Poetical Criticism: With Corrections, to which are ... Added the Letter to Mr. Campbell, as Far as Regards Põetical Criticism, and the Answer to the Writer in the Quarterly Review, Together with an Answer to Some Objections, and Further IllusHurst, Robinson, 1822 - 217 էջ |
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... minute , " " Poetry . " Not merely metre or measure . I need not adduce the disjecti membra poetæ of HORACE ; but I certainly do not mean any where by poetry , PROSE , such as certain criticisms and metaphysical quibbles , which these ...
... minute , " " Poetry . " Not merely metre or measure . I need not adduce the disjecti membra poetæ of HORACE ; but I certainly do not mean any where by poetry , PROSE , such as certain criticisms and metaphysical quibbles , which these ...
Էջ xiii
... minute painting from external nature ; whereas the whole gist of my argument was laid on PASSIONS . This was doing me injustice , on the part of Mr. CAMPBELL , from inadvertence : I would not hear his enemies say otherwise . But he says ...
... minute painting from external nature ; whereas the whole gist of my argument was laid on PASSIONS . This was doing me injustice , on the part of Mr. CAMPBELL , from inadvertence : I would not hear his enemies say otherwise . But he says ...
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... beauty , if it were less in detail . * The first book of the Iliad ; the translation of which by POPE has been so often quoted , " As when the moon , " & c . But how different , how minute is his description , [ 15 ]
... beauty , if it were less in detail . * The first book of the Iliad ; the translation of which by POPE has been so often quoted , " As when the moon , " & c . But how different , how minute is his description , [ 15 ]
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... minute is his description , when he describes what he is master of : for instance , the game of Ombre , in the Rape of the Lock ? This is from artificial life ; and with artificial life , from his infirmities , he must have been chiefly ...
... minute is his description , when he describes what he is master of : for instance , the game of Ombre , in the Rape of the Lock ? This is from artificial life ; and with artificial life , from his infirmities , he must have been chiefly ...
Էջ 104
... " Cum ventum ad veram est sensus , NATURA repugnat . " In fully , and I hope satisfactorily , developing my ideas on the subject of this controversy , I have thought it necessary to go into more minute detail , [ 104 ]
... " Cum ventum ad veram est sensus , NATURA repugnat . " In fully , and I hope satisfactorily , developing my ideas on the subject of this controversy , I have thought it necessary to go into more minute detail , [ 104 ]
Common terms and phrases
1891 ORGANIZED 1891 UNIVERSITY abstractedly ACHILLES adapted to poetry admitted affecting answer arguments artificial associations beautiful in nature blue bunting BOWLES BowLES's bust CAMPBELL CAMPBELL's canal circumstances derived described Edinburgh Review ERSITY execution exquisite external nature feelings genius Georgics heart highest HOMER Hounslow Heath ideas Iliad images drawn images from art in-door nature JUNIOR STANFORD LELAND STANFORD UNIVERSITY LELAND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES LELAND Lord BYRON Lordship Macbeth manners MILTON moral never object observe ORGANIZED 1891 Paddington painting Paradise Lost passage passions pathetic Philoctetes picture picturesque pigsty poet poetical beauty poetical character poetical sublimity POPE POPE's principles of poetry proposition Quarterly Review reader Roman holiday sails Salisbury Plain satires SHAKESPEARE shew ship SOPHOCLES speak STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY STANFORD LELAND STANFORD STANFORD ORGANIZED sublime and beautiful sublime or beautiful super-artificial THEOCRITUS thing thought tical trees UNIVE UNIVERSITY LELAND UNWIN's needle Venice waves winds word writer
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Էջ 80 - WHO is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength ? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
Էջ 38 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless...
Էջ 93 - 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...
Էջ 99 - He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes 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!
Էջ 50 - 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.
Էջ 11 - And now the tempter thus his silence broke : The city which thou seest no other deem Than great and glorious Rome...
Էջ 51 - He made darkness his secret place, his pavilion round about Him with dark water, and thick clouds to cover Him.
Էջ 10 - His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand...
Էջ 61 - 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.
Էջ 61 - 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, — All this rushed with his blood. — Shall he expire, And unavenged ? — Arise ! ye Goths, and glut your ire!