Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 |
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Page 448
... diction or imagery could exempt the BATHYLLUS even of an Anacreon , or the ALEXIS of Virgil , from disgust and aversion ! But the communication of pleasure may be the immediate ob ject of a work not metrically composed ; and that object ...
... diction or imagery could exempt the BATHYLLUS even of an Anacreon , or the ALEXIS of Virgil , from disgust and aversion ! But the communication of pleasure may be the immediate ob ject of a work not metrically composed ; and that object ...
Page 464
... diction and metre , on the other hand , he is comparatively care- less . The measure is either constructed on no previous system , and acknowledges no justifying principle but that of the writer's convenience ; or else some mechanical ...
... diction and metre , on the other hand , he is comparatively care- less . The measure is either constructed on no previous system , and acknowledges no justifying principle but that of the writer's convenience ; or else some mechanical ...
Page 467
... diction , combined with perfect simplicity . This their prime object they attained by the avoidance of every word , which a gentleman would not use in dignified conversation , and of every word and phrase , which none but a learned man ...
... diction , combined with perfect simplicity . This their prime object they attained by the avoidance of every word , which a gentleman would not use in dignified conversation , and of every word and phrase , which none but a learned man ...
Page 474
... diction - The best parts of language the product of philosophers , not of clowns or shepherds - Poetry essentially ideal and generic - The language of Milton as much the language of real life , yea , incomparably more so than that of ...
... diction - The best parts of language the product of philosophers , not of clowns or shepherds - Poetry essentially ideal and generic - The language of Milton as much the language of real life , yea , incomparably more so than that of ...
Page 475
... diction for poetry in general consists altogether in a lan- guage taken , with due exceptions , from the mouths of men in real life , a language which actually constitutes the natural con- versation of men under the influence of natural ...
... diction for poetry in general consists altogether in a lan- guage taken , with due exceptions , from the mouths of men in real life , a language which actually constitutes the natural con- versation of men under the influence of natural ...
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admiration appeared beautiful believe blank verse boys Bristol brother called character Charles Lamb Charles Lloyd child Christian Coleridge's common composition criticism Dane dear delight diction drama Edinburgh Review edition effect English essays excellence excitement expression eyes fancy Father feelings genius German ground heart heaven human Iamus images imagination instance Klopstock Kotzebue language least less letter lines literary Lyrical Ballads mean metre Milton mind moral Morning Post Mother Muse nature never object Paradise Lost passage passion perhaps person philosophical Pindar play pleasure poem poet poet's poetic poetry Poole preface present prose published racter Ratzeburg reader rhyme S. T. COLERIDGE says seems sense Shakspeare Sonnet soul Southey speak specimens spirit stanzas style taste thee things thou thought tion translation truth verse Watchman whole words Wordsworth writings written wrote
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Page 582 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized. High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Page 734 - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome!
Page 581 - Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise...
Page 555 - Oh ! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine ; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse...
Page 443 - I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation...
Page 451 - What is poetry? — is so nearly the same question with, what is a poet? — that the answer to the one is involved in the solution of the other.
Page 520 - Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky; The dew shall weep thy fall tonight, For thou must die.
Page 442 - ... things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us; an inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes, yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.
Page 580 - Upon whose grassless floor of red-brown hue, By sheddings from the pining umbrage tinged Perennially — beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose decked With unrejoicing berries — ghostly Shapes May meet at noontide; Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight; Death the Skeleton And Time the Shadow ; — there to celebrate, As in a natural temple scattered o'er With altars undisturbed of mossy stone, United worship ; or in mute repose To lie, and listen to the mountain flood...
Page 530 - Scot,' exclaims the lance — Bear me to the heart of France, Is the longing of the Shield — Tell thy name, thou trembling Field ; Field of Death, where'er thou be, Groan thou with our victory ! Happy day, and mighty hour, When our Shepherd, in his power, Mailed and horsed, with lance and sword, To his ancestors restored, Like a re-appearing Star, Like a glory from afar, First shall head the flock of war...