The English Poets, Volume 4Thomas Humphry Ward Macmillan, 1907 - English poetry |
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... feel , and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous , ' - this is his own account of the purpose of his poetry . ( Letter to Lady Beaumont , May , 1807. ) He has given the same account in the Preface to The Excursion ...
... feel , and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous , ' - this is his own account of the purpose of his poetry . ( Letter to Lady Beaumont , May , 1807. ) He has given the same account in the Preface to The Excursion ...
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... feel that there was as much worthy of a poet's serious art in the agonies of the mother of the Idiot Boy , and the terrors of Peter Bell , as in the ' majestic pains ' of Laodamia and Dion . He has summed up his poetical doctrine with ...
... feel that there was as much worthy of a poet's serious art in the agonies of the mother of the Idiot Boy , and the terrors of Peter Bell , as in the ' majestic pains ' of Laodamia and Dion . He has summed up his poetical doctrine with ...
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... feeling with profound thought : the fine balance of truth in observing , with the imaginative faculty in modifying ... feels the riddle of the world , and may help to unravel it . To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of ...
... feeling with profound thought : the fine balance of truth in observing , with the imaginative faculty in modifying ... feels the riddle of the world , and may help to unravel it . To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of ...
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... feel , where'er they be , Against or with our will . Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness . Think you , ' mid all this mighty sum Of ...
... feel , where'er they be , Against or with our will . Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness . Think you , ' mid all this mighty sum Of ...
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... feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain . She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain springs ; And hers shall be the breathing balm , And hers the silence and the calm Of mute ...
... feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain . She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain springs ; And hers shall be the breathing balm , And hers the silence and the calm Of mute ...
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