Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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13. oldal
... poetry , is the imagination or fancy inverted and so applied to given objects , as to make the little look less , the mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration or wean our affections from that which is lofty and ...
... poetry , is the imagination or fancy inverted and so applied to given objects , as to make the little look less , the mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration or wean our affections from that which is lofty and ...
23. oldal
... poetry is naturally to let down and lessen ; and it is easier to let down than to raise up ; to weaken than to strengthen ; to dis- connect our sympathy from passion and power , than to attach and rivet it to any object of grandeur or ...
... poetry is naturally to let down and lessen ; and it is easier to let down than to raise up ; to weaken than to strengthen ; to dis- connect our sympathy from passion and power , than to attach and rivet it to any object of grandeur or ...
24. oldal
... poetry , which aims at rivetting our affections , every blow must tell home . The missing a single time is fatal ... poet now living . Lear and the Fool are the sublimest instance I know of pas- sion and wit united , or of imagination ...
... poetry , which aims at rivetting our affections , every blow must tell home . The missing a single time is fatal ... poet now living . Lear and the Fool are the sublimest instance I know of pas- sion and wit united , or of imagination ...
45. oldal
... poetry and of wit . The sense of reality exercised a despotic sway over his mind , and equally weighed down and clogged his perception of the beautiful or the ridiculous . He had a keen sense of what was true and false , but not of the ...
... poetry and of wit . The sense of reality exercised a despotic sway over his mind , and equally weighed down and clogged his perception of the beautiful or the ridiculous . He had a keen sense of what was true and false , but not of the ...
55. oldal
... poets were men of learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour : but unluckily re- solving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of ...
... poets were men of learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour : but unluckily re- solving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of ...
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