The Revolutionary EpickLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864 - 176 oldal |
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æther airy altars Amid ancient arch art thou awful beauty birds blending blood breast breath bright bright castles brood brow cataract celestial clouds columns course crest crown dark deeds deep DEMOGORGON divine doom dread dream earth Epick eternal fair cities faith falchion fate FEALTY flame flash gaze glance Gleamed glittering gloomy golden groves hath heart hope hour ITALY kings land light Lyridon MAGROS measured Space mighty moon mountain mounting shadows musing mystic night Nilotic noble o'er palaces passions plain plume pomp Poured pride quivering radiant ray Bright REVOLUTIONARY EPICK rise sceptre seemed serene shade shadow shape shout shrine silent skies smile solemn soul spirit sprites starry stars steed stream struggle sublime thee thou thro throne trembling truth twilight Tyrian purple victory visage voice warriors wave wild wilderness wind wings Ye Stars yield youth
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viii. oldal - Comedy' with a National Epic; and the Reformation and its consequences called from the rapt lyre of Milton a Religious Epic. And the spirit of my time, shall it alone be uncelebrated ? " Standing upon Asia, and gazing upon Europe, with the broad Hellespont alone between us, and the shadow of night descending on the mountains, these mighty continents appeared to me, as it were, the Rival Principles of Government that at present contend for the mastery of the "world. ' What !'. I exclaimed,' is the...
vii. oldal - Troy that I first conceived the idea of this work. Wandering over that illustrious scene, surrounded by the tombs of heroes and by the confluence of poetic streams, my musing thoughts clustered round the memory of that immortal song to which all creeds and countries alike respond, which has vanquished Chance and defies Time. ' Deeming myself, perchance too rashly, in that excited hour, a Poet, I cursed the destiny that had placed me in an age that boasted of being antipoetical. And while my Fancy...
ix. oldal - Character, the other to the celebration of a gorgeous incident in the annals of that sacred and romantic people from whom I derive my blood and name,* — finally expelled from my thoughts a conception which, in truth, I deemed too bold.
vii. oldal - I cursed the destiny that had placed me in an age that boasted of being anti-poeticaL And while my Fancy thus struggled with my Reason, it flashed across my mind, like the lightning which was then playing over Ida, that in those great poems which rise, the pyramids of poetic art, amid the falling and the fading splendour of less creations, the Poet hath ever embodied the spirit of his Time. Thus, the most heroic incident of an heroic age produced in the Iliad...
viii. oldal - Iliad an Heroic Epick ; thus, the consolidation of the most superb of Empires, produced in the jEneid a Political Epick ; the revival of Learning, and the birth of vernacular Genius, presented us in the Divine Comedy with a National Epick ; and the Reformation and its consequences called from the rapt lyre of Milton a Religious Epick.
ix. oldal - I have ventured to submit to the public but a small portion of my creation, and even that with unaffected distrust and sincere humility. Whatever may be their decision I shall bow to it without a murmur ; for I am not one who find consolation for the neglect of my contemporaries in the imaginary 1 Author of Ten Thousand a Year.
viii. oldal - Thus the most heroick incident of an heroick age produced in the Iliad an Heroick Epick ; thus the consolidation of the most superb of Empires produced in the Aeneid a Political Epick ; the revival of learning and the birth of vernacular genius presented us in the Divine Comedy with a National Epick ; and the Reformation and its consequences called from the rapt lyre of Milton a Religious Epick.
viii. oldal - Political Epick; the revival of Learning, and the birth of vernacular Genius, presented us in the Divine Comedy with a National Epick; and the Reformation and its consequences called from the rapt lyre of Milton a Religious Epick. And the spirit of my time, shall it alone be uncelebrated ? Standing upon Asia, and gazing upon Europe, with the broad Hellespont alone between us, and the shadow of Night descending on the mountains...
x. oldal - This work, if it be permitted to proceed, will, I hope, evolve a moral, which governors and the governed may alike peruse with profit, and which may teach wisdom both to monarchs and to multitudes.
ix. oldal - I am not one who find consolation for the neglect of my contemporaries in the imaginary plaudits of a more sympathetic posterity. The public will then decide whether this work is to be continued and completed ; and if it pass in the negative, I shall, without a pang, hurl my lyre to Limbo.