The Prelude to Poetry: The English Poets in Defence and Praise of Their ArtErnest Rhys J. M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1927 - 292 |
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... common and known conceptions . . . . Then it gets aloft and flies away with his rider , whither before it was doubtful to ascend . " This the poets understood by their Helicon , Pegasus , or Parnassus ; and this made Ovid to boast Est ...
... common and known conceptions . . . . Then it gets aloft and flies away with his rider , whither before it was doubtful to ascend . " This the poets understood by their Helicon , Pegasus , or Parnassus ; and this made Ovid to boast Est ...
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... Common - wealth , as the way of Sir Thomas Moores Eutopia ? I say the way , because where Sir Thomas Moore erred , it was the fault of the man and not of the Poet , for that way of patterning a Common - wealth was most absolute , though ...
... Common - wealth , as the way of Sir Thomas Moores Eutopia ? I say the way , because where Sir Thomas Moore erred , it was the fault of the man and not of the Poet , for that way of patterning a Common - wealth was most absolute , though ...
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... common places of uncharitablenes and humblenes , as the divine narration of Dives and Lazarus : or of disobedience and mercy , as that heavenly discourse of the lost Child and the gratious Father ; but that hys through - searching ...
... common places of uncharitablenes and humblenes , as the divine narration of Dives and Lazarus : or of disobedience and mercy , as that heavenly discourse of the lost Child and the gratious Father ; but that hys through - searching ...
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... common errors of our life , which he representeth , in the most ridiculous and scornefull sort that may be . So as it is impossible , that any beholder can be content to be such a one . Now , as in Geometry , the oblique must be knowne ...
... common errors of our life , which he representeth , in the most ridiculous and scornefull sort that may be . So as it is impossible , that any beholder can be content to be such a one . Now , as in Geometry , the oblique must be knowne ...
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... Common - wealth . Truely , this is much , if there be much truth in it . First to the first : that a man might better spend his time , is a reason indeede : but it doth ( as they say ) but Petere principium : for if it be as I affirme ...
... Common - wealth . Truely , this is much , if there be much truth in it . First to the first : that a man might better spend his time , is a reason indeede : but it doth ( as they say ) but Petere principium : for if it be as I affirme ...
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Strona 245 - I am a member ; that sort distinguished from the Wordsworthian, or egotistical Sublime ; which is a thing per se, and stands alone), it is not itself — it has no self- -It is every thing and nothing...
Strona 244 - I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity ; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Strona 172 - such as Angels weep," but natural and human tears ; she can boast of no celestial ichor that distinguishes her vital juices from those of Prose ; the same human blood circulates through the veins of them both.
Strona 246 - Knowing within myself (he says) the manner in which this Poem has been produced, it is not without a feeling of regret that I make it public.— What manner I mean, will be quite clear to the reader, who must soon perceive great inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting a feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished.'— Preface, p.