 | Charles Lamb - 1833 - 308 pagine
...spurious resemblance of it in dreams and fevers, impute a state of dreaminess and fever to the poet. But the true poet dreams being awake. He is not possessed...intoxicated. He treads the burning marl without dismay ; he wins his flight without self-loss through realms of chaos " and old night." Or if, abandoning himself... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 326 pagine
...spurious resemblance of it in dreams and fevers, impute a state of dreaminess and fever to the poet. But the true poet dreams being awake. He is not possessed...intoxicated. He treads the burning marl without dismay ; he wins his flight without self-loss through realms of chaos " and old night." Or if, abandoning himself... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 324 pagine
...spurious resemblance of it in dreams and fevers, impute a state of dreaminess and fever to the poet. But the true poet dreams being awake. He is not possessed...intoxicated. He treads the burning marl without dismay; he wins his flight without self-loss through realms of chaos " and old night.'' Or if, abandoning himself... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pagine
...spurious resemblance of it in dreams and fevers, impute a state of dreaminess and fever to the poet. But the true poet dreams being awake. He is not possessed...intoxicated. He treads the burning marl without dismay ; he wins his flight without self-loss through realms of chaos " and old night." Or if, abandoning himself... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pagine
...spurious resemblance of it in dreams and fevers, impute a state of dreaminess and fever to the poet. But the true poet dreams being awake. He is not possessed...intoxicated. He treads the burning marl without dismay ; he wins his flight without self-loss through realms of chaos " and old night." Or if, abandoning himself... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 396 pagine
...spurious resemblance of it in dreams and fevers, impute a state of dreaminess and fever to the poet. But the true poet dreams being awake. He is not possessed...has dominion over it. In the groves of Eden he walks familiarly as in his native paths. He ascends the empyrean heaven, and is not intoxicated. He treads... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1850 - 490 pagine
...spurious resemblance of it in dreams and fevers, impute a state of dreaminess and fever to the poet. But the true poet dreams being awake. He is not possessed...but has dominion over it. In the groves of Eden he waljjs familiar as in his native paths. He ascends the empyrean heaven, and is not intoxicated. He... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1851 - 396 pagine
...spurious resemblance of it in dreams and fevers, impute a state of dreaminess and fever to the poet. But the true poet dreams being awake. He is not possessed...has dominion over it. In the groves of Eden he walks familiarly as in his native paths. He ascends the empyrean heaven, and is not intoxicated. He treads... | |
 | 1854 - 526 pagine
...talent is here chiefly to be understood, manifests itself in the admirable balance of all the faculties. The true poet dreams, being awake. He is not possessed...intoxicated. He treads the burning marl without dismay ; he wins his flight without self-loss through realms of ' Chaos and Old Night.' Where he seems .most to... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 624 pagine
...spurious resemblance of it in dreams and fevers, impute a state of dreaminess and fever to the poet. But the true poet dreams being awake. He is not possessed...intoxicated. He treads the burning marl without dismay ; he wins his flight without self-loss through realms of chaos " and old night." Or if, abandoning himself... | |
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The ground of the mistake is, that men, finding in the raptures of the higher poetry a condition of exaltation, to which they have no parallel in their own experience, besides the spurious resemblance of it in dreams and fevers, impute a state of dreaminess... 
