The Sáhitya-darpana: or, Mirror of composition, a treatise on literary criticismBaptist Mission Press, 1875 |
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Accessories according action Alliteration arising Arjuna attribute beauty belonging beloved Bhartrihari Bhima blue lotus Brahman breasts called canto cause character COMMENTARY Commixture composition connection consists conveyed declared Deity Denotation Dhritarashtra distinct divisions drama Duryodhana Dushyanta Ensuants Erotic example Excellence Excitants exemplified expressed eyes fault female figure Gustation heart hero heroine hinted implied inasmuch Incomplete Flavour Indication Indra inference instance Junctures Karna Kávya king Kshattriya lady Lakshmana lord lotus lover Mádhava matter meaning mentioned merit metre Modal Metaphor moon Mukha Náṭaka nature occasion ornament Paronomasia Patáká perception Periphrasis person poem poet Poetical Fancy principal Quietistic Ráma Ratnávalí Relish respect Roer's edition S'akuntalá S'iva Sahadeva Sandhi Sanhára Sanskrit semblance sentence sentiment separation signify Simile speech spoken stanza style Suggested sense Suggestive Poetry sweet termed TEXT thee thing thou tion understood varieties Vení verses Vishnu whilst woman word Yudhishthira
Populaire passages
Pagina vi - Joy, Lady! is the spirit and the power, Which wedding Nature to us gives in dower A new Earth and new Heaven...
Pagina iv - What thou art, we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Pagina iii - HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Pagina 385 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Pagina 442 - Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain— Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet?— God!
Pagina xiii - Any composition in verse (and none that is not) is always called, whether good or bad, a poem, by all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain.
Pagina vi - And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
Pagina iii - ... stating the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. \He describes him by imagery, that is, by suggesting the most striking likenesses and contrasts which might occur to a mind contemplating the lion, in the. -state of awe^ wonder. or terror, which the spectacle naturally excites, or is, on the occasion, supposed to excite. Now this is describing the lion professedly,^ t the state of excitement of the spectator really...
Pagina 280 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense: Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.
Pagina vi - Every truth which a human being can enunciate, every thought, even every outward impression, which can enter into his consciousness, may become poetry when shown through any impassioned medium, when invested with the colouring of joy, or grief, or pity, or affection, or admiration, or reverence, or awe, or even hatred or terror : and, unless so coloured, nothing, be it as interesting as it may, is poetry.