Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &e: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Harper, 1857 - 324 sider |
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... stars , to cry out- " The hand that made us is divine . " The power of being a poet in this sense is a power from Heaven : wherein it consists , I know not ; but this I do know , that there never existed a poet of the highest order who ...
... stars , to cry out- " The hand that made us is divine . " The power of being a poet in this sense is a power from Heaven : wherein it consists , I know not ; but this I do know , that there never existed a poet of the highest order who ...
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... star in the heavens leaves a meteor in the air . Of the antiques alone , how innumerable has been the progeny generated from creative minds , follow- ing them less by imitation than by rivalry , and bor- rowing nothing from them but ...
... star in the heavens leaves a meteor in the air . Of the antiques alone , how innumerable has been the progeny generated from creative minds , follow- ing them less by imitation than by rivalry , and bor- rowing nothing from them but ...
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... stars in their courses , the sun in his circuit , and the moon through her changes , by day and by night display his glory ; the seasons in suc- cession , the land and the waters , reciprocally distrib- ute his bounty . Every plant in ...
... stars in their courses , the sun in his circuit , and the moon through her changes , by day and by night display his glory ; the seasons in suc- cession , the land and the waters , reciprocally distrib- ute his bounty . Every plant in ...
Side 53
... stars , which are the poetry of heaven ! " This is one of those rapturous apostrophes of the author of Childe Harold which occasionally burst , in fine phrensy , from the impassioned poet , like oracles from the lips of the Pythoness ...
... stars , which are the poetry of heaven ! " This is one of those rapturous apostrophes of the author of Childe Harold which occasionally burst , in fine phrensy , from the impassioned poet , like oracles from the lips of the Pythoness ...
Side 54
... stars may indeed be called the poetry of heaven . Among these may be mentioned the time of their appearance , in the solitude , silence , and darkness of night ; their motion , with one consent , from east to west , each kept in its ...
... stars may indeed be called the poetry of heaven . Among these may be mentioned the time of their appearance , in the solitude , silence , and darkness of night ; their motion , with one consent , from east to west , each kept in its ...
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