Poetry puts a spirit of life and motion into the universe. It describes the flowing, not the fixed. It does not define the limits of sense, or analyze the distinctions of the understanding, but signifies the excess of the imagination beyond the actual... Western Characters - Página 32por John Ludlum McConnel - 1853 - 378 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 páginas
...limits of sense, or analyze the distinctions of the understanding, but signifies the excess of the imagination beyond the actual / or ordinary impression of any object or feeling. The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot... | |
| 1818 - 598 páginas
...limits of sense, or analyse the distinctions of the understanding, but signifies the excess of the imagination beyond the actual or ordinary impression of any object or feeling.' Poetry was at the beginning of the book asserted to be an impression ; it is now the excess of the... | |
| 1819 - 630 páginas
...limits of sense, or analyse the distinctions of the understanding, but signifies the excess of the imagination beyond the actual or ordinary impression of any object or feeling.' Poetry was at the beginning of the book asserted to be an impression ; it is now the excess of the... | |
| John Edward Taylor - 1840 - 182 páginas
...limits of sense, or analyse the distinctions of the understanding, but signifies the excess of the imagination beyond the actual or ordinary impression of any object or feeling. The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power which cannot... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 páginas
...limits of sense, nor analyze the distinctions of the understanding, but signifies the excess of the imagination beyond the actual or ordinary impression of any object or feeling. The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot... | |
| John Ludlum McConnel - 1853 - 414 páginas
...utility • and, by both, the merely fanciful <-;nd imaginative is undervalued. Thus, as Mr. Macaulay* ingeniously says, "A great poem, in a highly-polished...mythology, compared to that of the Greeks and Romans,! has been (by Lord Lindsay) attributed to this want — though, if such were its only effects, it might... | |
| John Ludlum McConnel - 1853 - 408 páginas
...expression or articulation ; and, in the half-civilized state, neither a refined public sentiment, Tior the other extreme of barbarous isolation, restrains...his mythology, compared to that of the Greeks and Romans,f has been (by Lord Lindsay) attributed to this want — though, jf such were its only effects,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1876 - 474 páginas
...limits of sense, or analyse the distinctions of the understanding, but signifies the excess of the imagination beyond the actual or ordinary impression of any object or feeling. The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1886 - 500 páginas
...limits of sense, nor analyse the distinctions of the understanding, but signifies the excess of the imagination beyond the actual or ordinary impression of any object or feeling.' Poetry was at the beginning of the book asserted to be an impression; it is now the excess of the imagination... | |
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