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Page 12
... speech. It is ever enlivened by inversion and' trope. God himself does not speak prose, but communicates with us by hints, omens, inference and dark resemblances in objects lying all around us.' Nothing so marks a man as imaginative ...
... speech. It is ever enlivened by inversion and' trope. God himself does not speak prose, but communicates with us by hints, omens, inference and dark resemblances in objects lying all around us.' Nothing so marks a man as imaginative ...
Page 17
... speech. A deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing. As soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it, fields, waters, skies, offer to clothe his thoughts in images. Then all men ...
... speech. A deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing. As soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it, fields, waters, skies, offer to clothe his thoughts in images. Then all men ...
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... of the ima e. The selection must folloi fate. Werfected, is the only verity; is t e speech of man after the real, and not after the apparent. Or shall we say that the imagination exists by sharing. ao POETRY AND IMAGINATION.
... of the ima e. The selection must folloi fate. Werfected, is the only verity; is t e speech of man after the real, and not after the apparent. Or shall we say that the imagination exists by sharing. ao POETRY AND IMAGINATION.
Page 43
... the term, and its possibility is an unfathomable enigma. The gushing fulness of speech belongs to the poet, and it flows from the lips of each of his magic beings in the thoughts and words peculiar to its nature." ' CREATION 4.3.
... the term, and its possibility is an unfathomable enigma. The gushing fulness of speech belongs to the poet, and it flows from the lips of each of his magic beings in the thoughts and words peculiar to its nature." ' CREATION 4.3.
Page 52
... speech refines into order and harmony. I know what you say of medizeval barbarism and sleighbell rhyme, but we have not done with music, no, nor with rhyme, nor must console ourselves with prose poets so long as boys whistle and girls ...
... speech refines into order and harmony. I know what you say of medizeval barbarism and sleighbell rhyme, but we have not done with music, no, nor with rhyme, nor must console ourselves with prose poets so long as boys whistle and girls ...
Contents
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ELOQUENCE | 118 |
RESOURCES | 137 |
THE COMIC | 172 |
PROGRESS OF CULTURE | 205 |
PERSIAN POETRY | 235 |
IMMORTALITY | 321 |
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