Coleridge's Literary CriticismH. Frowde, 1908 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina xii
... defect of his critical faculty . So long as he moves among real things , his insight is instinctive , his touch certain . One of the most striking things about Wordsworth as a critic is the contrast between the truth of his general ...
... defect of his critical faculty . So long as he moves among real things , his insight is instinctive , his touch certain . One of the most striking things about Wordsworth as a critic is the contrast between the truth of his general ...
Pagina 20
... defect of arbitrary and illogical phrases , at once hackneyed and fantastic , which hold so distinguished a place in the technique of ordinary poetry , and will , more or less , alloy the earlier poems of the truest genius , unless the ...
... defect of arbitrary and illogical phrases , at once hackneyed and fantastic , which hold so distinguished a place in the technique of ordinary poetry , and will , more or less , alloy the earlier poems of the truest genius , unless the ...
Pagina 21
... defects , or to those more properly his own , which made so unusual an impression on my feelings immediately , and sub- sequently on my judgement . It was the union of deep feeling with profound thought ; the fine balance of truth in ...
... defects , or to those more properly his own , which made so unusual an impression on my feelings immediately , and sub- sequently on my judgement . It was the union of deep feeling with profound thought ; the fine balance of truth in ...
Pagina 29
... defect or exaggeration , by kindling and feeding the con- troversy , may have conduced not only to the wider propagation of the accompanying truths , but that , by their frequent presentation to the mind in an excited state , they may ...
... defect or exaggeration , by kindling and feeding the con- troversy , may have conduced not only to the wider propagation of the accompanying truths , but that , by their frequent presentation to the mind in an excited state , they may ...
Pagina 39
... defects , from all lasting and rational causes of dislike or disgust ) because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived ; and because , from their rank in society and ...
... defects , from all lasting and rational causes of dislike or disgust ) because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived ; and because , from their rank in society and ...
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Pagina 244 - Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then, let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man.
Pagina 236 - Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say, This thing's to do ; Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Pagina viii - The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
Pagina 88 - Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake.
Pagina 177 - Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast The sun ariseth in his majesty; Who doth the world so gloriously behold, That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold.
Pagina 171 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
Pagina 172 - With this he breaketh from the sweet embrace Of those fair arms which bound him to her breast, And homeward through the dark laund runs apace; Leaves Love upon her back, deeply distress'd. Look how a bright star shooteth from the sky, So glides he in the night from Venus...
Pagina 36 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
Pagina 80 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
Pagina 219 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.