Poetics: An Essay on PoetrySmith, Elder, and Company, 1852 - 294 pagina's |
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Pagina 11
... tell black from white , there is often a luxury in grief with which we would not part for anything short of the highest bliss . Some have gone so far as to say that the pleasure wrung from sorrow is the greatest of all ; as Shelley ...
... tell black from white , there is often a luxury in grief with which we would not part for anything short of the highest bliss . Some have gone so far as to say that the pleasure wrung from sorrow is the greatest of all ; as Shelley ...
Pagina 16
... tell of the very lees . But to tell of the varying lights of pleasure , and all the winning ways of goodness , we are wholly at a loss ; and the most we can say of the greatest goodness is , that there is an un- known , indescribable ...
... tell of the very lees . But to tell of the varying lights of pleasure , and all the winning ways of goodness , we are wholly at a loss ; and the most we can say of the greatest goodness is , that there is an un- known , indescribable ...
Pagina 26
... tell him in no min- cing terms , that he had placed the seat of passion in the heart chiefly because he was writing in English ; that had he been writing in Greek , he might have placed it in the liver ; that had he been writing in ...
... tell him in no min- cing terms , that he had placed the seat of passion in the heart chiefly because he was writing in English ; that had he been writing in Greek , he might have placed it in the liver ; that had he been writing in ...
Pagina 29
... tell that they could have died , and were ready to melt away . These remarks are fully borne out by all the accounts that have reached us of persons in a state of high enjoy- ment ; and among others are well illustrated by the be ...
... tell that they could have died , and were ready to melt away . These remarks are fully borne out by all the accounts that have reached us of persons in a state of high enjoy- ment ; and among others are well illustrated by the be ...
Pagina 43
... tell ; but I know very well if you do not ask me . As though some wicked sphinx were the questioner , no sooner are we asked what poetry is than all poetry has fled , and is seen like the mirage far away behind us and before . I am in ...
... tell ; but I know very well if you do not ask me . As though some wicked sphinx were the questioner , no sooner are we asked what poetry is than all poetry has fled , and is seen like the mirage far away behind us and before . I am in ...
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