Imaginary conversations. Third series : Conversations of literary men (First series)Chapman and Hall, 1876 |
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... poets cannot walk or sit together easily while they have any poetry about them : they must turn it out upon the table or the grass or the rock or the road - side . I shall call on you presently ; take all I have in the meanwhile . Afar ...
... poets cannot walk or sit together easily while they have any poetry about them : they must turn it out upon the table or the grass or the rock or the road - side . I shall call on you presently ; take all I have in the meanwhile . Afar ...
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... poetry , even a consciousness that the poetry itself is bad never leads me to think the occupation is . Foliage , herbage , pebbles , may put in motion the finer parts of the mind ; and although the first things it throws off be verses ...
... poetry , even a consciousness that the poetry itself is bad never leads me to think the occupation is . Foliage , herbage , pebbles , may put in motion the finer parts of the mind ; and although the first things it throws off be verses ...
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... poets for their poetry , and to extract that nutriment of the intellect and of the heart which poetry should contain . I never listen to the swans of the cesspool , and must declare that nothing is heavier to me than rottenness and ...
... poets for their poetry , and to extract that nutriment of the intellect and of the heart which poetry should contain . I never listen to the swans of the cesspool , and must declare that nothing is heavier to me than rottenness and ...
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... poetry , as it is of modern arms and equipments , to be more uniformly trim and polished . The ancients in both had more strength and splendour ; they had also more inequality and rudeness . Southey . We are guided by precept , by habit ...
... poetry , as it is of modern arms and equipments , to be more uniformly trim and polished . The ancients in both had more strength and splendour ; they had also more inequality and rudeness . Southey . We are guided by precept , by habit ...
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... poet is to be judged from the quantity of his bad poetry , or from the quality of his best ? Southey . I should certainly say from the latter : because it must be in poetry as in sculpture and painting ; he who arrives at a high degree ...
... poet is to be judged from the quantity of his bad poetry , or from the quality of his best ? Southey . I should certainly say from the latter : because it must be in poetry as in sculpture and painting ; he who arrives at a high degree ...
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Page 383 - There is no excellent Beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Page 518 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What needst thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 375 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not: but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
Page 366 - That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come; therefore they do but trifle with themselves that labour in past matters. There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake, but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honour, or the like; therefore why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me? And if any man should do wrong, merely out of...
Page 443 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 374 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Page 127 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 382 - Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Page 386 - Certainly, fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid...
Page 44 - He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure ; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal, The past unsighed for, and the future sure...