The Eclectic Review, Volume 2; Volume 115Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Thomas Price, Josiah Conder, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood 1862 |
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Page 142
... poetry is personification ; that is , the attributing of life to mute or abstract , or dumb and unintelligent creatures ; of this there are innumerable instances . Another link in the comprehension of this Book , and of Hebrew poetry in ...
... poetry is personification ; that is , the attributing of life to mute or abstract , or dumb and unintelligent creatures ; of this there are innumerable instances . Another link in the comprehension of this Book , and of Hebrew poetry in ...
Page 193
... Poetry ? 193 the land of souls ; and poetry of the highest order has further this attribute , that it fits the spirit of the man able to read and to understand , to visit himself the land of souls . This is , at any rate , assuredly the ...
... Poetry ? 193 the land of souls ; and poetry of the highest order has further this attribute , that it fits the spirit of the man able to read and to understand , to visit himself the land of souls . This is , at any rate , assuredly the ...
Page 263
... poetry , and which has no further claim to that title than in its metre and its rhythm . Many men are called poets whose imagination is never active except when they dream , and whose pen is never facile , except when it utters prosaic ...
... poetry , and which has no further claim to that title than in its metre and its rhythm . Many men are called poets whose imagination is never active except when they dream , and whose pen is never facile , except when it utters prosaic ...
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