Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906 - English poetry |
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Page 131
... images rather obstruct the career of fancy than incite it . Pleasure and terrour are indeed the genuine sources of poetry ; but poetical pleasure must be such as human imagination can at least conceive , and poetical terrour such as ...
... images rather obstruct the career of fancy than incite it . Pleasure and terrour are indeed the genuine sources of poetry ; but poetical pleasure must be such as human imagination can at least conceive , and poetical terrour such as ...
Page 148
... images so happily together ? It is scarcely possible to peruse a page without finding some association of images that was never found before . By the first paragraph the reader is amused , by the next he is delighted , and by a few more ...
... images so happily together ? It is scarcely possible to peruse a page without finding some association of images that was never found before . By the first paragraph the reader is amused , by the next he is delighted , and by a few more ...
Page 205
... images such as the superficies of nature readily supplies ; he has a just claim to popularity , because he writes to common degrees of knowledge , and is free at least from philo- sophical pedantry , unless perhaps the end of a song To ...
... images such as the superficies of nature readily supplies ; he has a just claim to popularity , because he writes to common degrees of knowledge , and is free at least from philo- sophical pedantry , unless perhaps the end of a song To ...
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