Poems, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1815 |
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Page 371
... poetic diction ; I have taken as much pains to avoid it as others ordinarily take to produce it ; this I have done for the reason already alleged , to bring my language near to the language of men , and further , because the pleasure ...
... poetic diction ; I have taken as much pains to avoid it as others ordinarily take to produce it ; this I have done for the reason already alleged , to bring my language near to the language of men , and further , because the pleasure ...
Page 373
... poetic diction . In vain to me the smiling mornings shine , And reddening Phœbus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join , Or cheerful fields resume their green attire . These ears , alas ! for other notes ...
... poetic diction . In vain to me the smiling mornings shine , And reddening Phœbus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join , Or cheerful fields resume their green attire . These ears , alas ! for other notes ...
Page 384
... poetic diction , arbitrary , and subject to infinite caprices upon which no calculation whatever can be made . In the one case , the Reader is utterly at the mercy of the Poet respecting what imagery or diction he may choose to connect ...
... poetic diction , arbitrary , and subject to infinite caprices upon which no calculation whatever can be made . In the one case , the Reader is utterly at the mercy of the Poet respecting what imagery or diction he may choose to connect ...
Page 395
... POETIC DICTION . " As perhaps I have no right to expect from a Reader of an Introduction to a volume of Poems that attentive perusal without which it is impossible , imperfectly as I have been compelled to express my meaning , that what ...
... POETIC DICTION . " As perhaps I have no right to expect from a Reader of an Introduction to a volume of Poems that attentive perusal without which it is impossible , imperfectly as I have been compelled to express my meaning , that what ...
Page 397
... poetic genius , introduced less or more of this adulterated phraseology into his compo- sitions , and the true and ... diction became daily more and more cor- rupt , thrusting out of sight the plain humanities of nature by a motley ...
... poetic genius , introduced less or more of this adulterated phraseology into his compo- sitions , and the true and ... diction became daily more and more cor- rupt , thrusting out of sight the plain humanities of nature by a motley ...
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Page 212 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour ; .England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 355 - To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the Brooks, which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripped lightly as they...
Page 191 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Page 338 - Ah ! then if mine had been the painter's hand To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream...
Page 381 - In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed; the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.
Page 105 - One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: — We murder to dissect.
Page 80 - Unwearied in that service : rather say With warmer love — oh ! with far deeper zeal Of holier love. Nor wilt thou then forget, That after many wanderings, many years Of absence, these steep woods and lofty cliffs, And this green pastoral landscape, were to me More dear, both for themselves and for thy sake ! LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING.
Page 30 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence ; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Page 354 - Hence, in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 352 - Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage; thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest Which we are toiling all our lives to find...