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A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the ... - Page 30
by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840
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Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments,

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 368 pages
...expresses those arrangements of language, and especially metrical language, which are created by that imperial faculty, whose throne is curtained within...plastic and obedient to the control of that faculty of which it is the creation. For language is arbitrarily produced by the imagination, and has relation...
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Essays, Letters from Abroad

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 246 pages
...language, and especially metrical language, which ire created by that imperial faculty, whose throne U curtained within the invisible nature of man. And...direct representation of the actions and passions of onr internal being, and is susceptible of more various and delicate combinations, than colour, form,...
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Essays, Letters from Abroad

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...expresses those arrangements of language, and especially metrical language, which are created by that imperial faculty, whose throne is curtained within...of man. And this springs from the nature itself of language,3 which is a more direct representation of the actions 1 and passions of our internal being,...
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The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...expresses those arrangements of language, and especially metrical language, which are created by that imperial faculty, whose throne is curtained within...plastic and obedient to the control of that faculty of which it is the creation. For language is arbitrarily produced by the imagination, and has relation...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volumes 57-58

Henry Allon - 1873 - 712 pages
...expression.' Again, he says, ' poetry expresses those arrangements of language which are created by that imperial faculty, whose throne is curtained within the invisible nature of man.' This is nearly as unsatisfactory as the deliverance of a recent ambitions writer, that poetry is '...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley; Essays, Letters from Abroad ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 584 pages
...expresses those arrangements of language, and especially metrical language, which are created by that imperial faculty, whose throne is curtained within...than colour, form, or motion, and is more plastic and ' obedieut to the control of that faculty of which it is the creation. For language is arbitrarily...
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Irish Monthly, Volume 43

1915 - 826 pages
...place, by virtue of the superior nobility and flexibility of the medium in which he works. Language .... is a more direct representation of the actions and...plastic and obedient to the control of that faculty of which it is the creation. For language is arbitrarily produced by the imagination and has relation...
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Studies in Philosophy and Literature

William Angus Knight - 1879 - 456 pages
...expression.' Again, he says, 'poetry expresses those arrangements of language which are created by that imperial faculty, whose throne is curtained within the invisible nature of man.' This is nearly as unsatisfactory as the deliverance of a recent ambitious writer, on ' Poetics ' that...
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The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, how First ..., Volume 7

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 438 pages
...expresses those arrangements of language, and especially metrical language, which are created by that imperial faculty, whose throne is curtained within...or motion, and is more plastic and obedient to the controul of that faculty of which it is the creation. For language is arbitrarily produced by the imagination,...
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The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 3

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 444 pages
...expresses those arrangements of language, and especially metrical language, which axe created by that imperial faculty, whose throne is curtained within...or motion, and is more plastic and obedient to the controul of that faculty of which it is the creation. For language is arbitrarily produced by the imagination,...
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