Lectures on Poetry and General Literature: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831 |
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... Italian wit , did not only afford us the demonstration of his practice , but sought to enrich our minds with the contemplation therein , which he thought was most precious . But with none , I remember , mine ears were at any time more ...
... Italian wit , did not only afford us the demonstration of his practice , but sought to enrich our minds with the contemplation therein , which he thought was most precious . But with none , I remember , mine ears were at any time more ...
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... Italy ; Ercilla in Spain ; Camoens in Portugal ; as well as our own Shakspeare , Spenser , and Milton ; flourished in pe- riods far inferior to the present in wealth , luxury , general intelligence , and literary taste ; yet in their ...
... Italy ; Ercilla in Spain ; Camoens in Portugal ; as well as our own Shakspeare , Spenser , and Milton ; flourished in pe- riods far inferior to the present in wealth , luxury , general intelligence , and literary taste ; yet in their ...
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... Italy can boast ; and which ( with the exceptionof the Hohenlinden and the Battle of the Baltic , by our accomplished coun- tryman whose stanzas I have been discussing ) , stand unrivalled by any war - songs with which I am ac- quainted ...
... Italy can boast ; and which ( with the exceptionof the Hohenlinden and the Battle of the Baltic , by our accomplished coun- tryman whose stanzas I have been discussing ) , stand unrivalled by any war - songs with which I am ac- quainted ...
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... Italians . When a new Pygmalion shall arise , he will not be content to say to his statue , with the last stroke of the chisel , " Speak , " but he will add " Move . " Be this as it may , beauty , intelligence , strength , grace of ...
... Italians . When a new Pygmalion shall arise , he will not be content to say to his statue , with the last stroke of the chisel , " Speak , " but he will add " Move . " Be this as it may , beauty , intelligence , strength , grace of ...
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... Italians . When a new Pygmalion shall arise , he will not be content to say to his statue , with the last stroke of the chisel , " Speak , " but he will add " Move . " - Be this as it may , — beauty , intelligence , strength , grace of ...
... Italians . When a new Pygmalion shall arise , he will not be content to say to his statue , with the last stroke of the chisel , " Speak , " but he will add " Move . " - Be this as it may , — beauty , intelligence , strength , grace of ...
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Page 25 - And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away...
Page 171 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 61 - As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Page 240 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 51 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their...
Page 101 - ... a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.
Page 101 - Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect...
Page 246 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 126 - Could I embody and unbosom now, That which is most within me, — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, [sword.
Page 51 - LEAR. Pray, do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man, fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; and, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.