The Romantic Age in Prose: An AnthologyAlan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones Rodopi, 1980 - 159 páginas |
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... respect for French sophistication in the arts was under- mined . In Britain the Napoleonic War brought overt hostility to things French . The main alternative cultural influence was German . In Germany the tradition of Lutheran pietism ...
... respect for French sophistication in the arts was under- mined . In Britain the Napoleonic War brought overt hostility to things French . The main alternative cultural influence was German . In Germany the tradition of Lutheran pietism ...
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... respect was the peculiar form of moral and democratic rationalism associated with the Scottish tra- dition . The combination of the elective , debating form of church government , and the tolerant ' new light ' ethic of the moral sense ...
... respect was the peculiar form of moral and democratic rationalism associated with the Scottish tra- dition . The combination of the elective , debating form of church government , and the tolerant ' new light ' ethic of the moral sense ...
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... respects a reactionary , Cobbett also looks forward to the next age ; he was not only a member of the Reformed Parliament , but a studious cultivator of his own personal image , with an individual , though not learned , style ...
... respects a reactionary , Cobbett also looks forward to the next age ; he was not only a member of the Reformed Parliament , but a studious cultivator of his own personal image , with an individual , though not learned , style ...
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... respect to nobility . Why ? Because when such ideas are brought before our minds , it is natural to be so affected ; because all other feelings are false and spurious , and tend to corrupt our minds , to 4. a king of France in that ...
... respect to nobility . Why ? Because when such ideas are brought before our minds , it is natural to be so affected ; because all other feelings are false and spurious , and tend to corrupt our minds , to 4. a king of France in that ...
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... respecting the rights of man , is , that they do not go far enough into antiquity . They do not go the whole way . They stop in some of the intermediate stages of an hundred or a thousand years , and produce what was then done , as a ...
... respecting the rights of man , is , that they do not go far enough into antiquity . They do not go the whole way . They stop in some of the intermediate stages of an hundred or a thousand years , and produce what was then done , as a ...
Contenido
IMAGINATION | 40 |
W Wordsworth extracts from Preface to Lyrical Ballads With | 47 |
Peacock extract from The Four Ages of Poetry | 62 |
J Keats extracts from letters | 70 |
S T Coleridge extracts from Conciones ad Populum | 84 |
Términos y frases comunes
Amsterdam 1978 beautiful become Burke cause character civil classes Coleridge Coleridge's constitution cultivation degree delight distinction edition effects England equally evil excite exertions existence expression extracts eyes faculty feelings French Revolution Godwin greatest number habits happiness Hazlitt human ideas imagination improvement increase individual influence intellectual interest James Mill Jeremy Bentham John Keats justice knowledge labour language laws less liberty live Lyrical Ballads mankind manner MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY means mind moral NASSAU WILLIAM SENIOR National Church natural price natural rights necessary never object original pain parish passions pauperism persons pleasure poem poet poetic poetry political poor Poor Laws possessed present price of labour principle produced prose reason reform rendered respect Revolution Romantic S.T. Coleridge sense social society spirit style tendency things thought truth virtue Volume wages whole WILLIAM COBBETT William Godwin words Wordsworth
Pasajes populares
Página 23 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Página 24 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Página 93 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Página 49 - Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect...
Página 24 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Página 49 - The language, too, of these men has been adopted, (purified indeed from what appear to be its real defects, from all lasting and rational causes of dislike or disgust,) because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived...
Página 90 - The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space, while it is blended with, and modified by, that empirical phenomenon of the will which we express by the word choice. But equally with the ordinary memory the fancy must receive all its materials ready made from the law of association.
Página 90 - The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM...
Página 21 - You will observe, that, from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform policy of our Constitution to claim and assert our liberties as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity, — as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.