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" Hence the poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that of desire: the former has its foundation in the scene which is present, while the latter hovers betwixt recollection and hope. "
A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
by August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1846 - 535 pages
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The Augustan review, Volume 2

710 pages
...melancholy ; ' " The poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that of desire : the former has its foundation in the scene which is present, while the latter hovers between recollection and hope. Let me not be understood to affirm that every thing (lows in one strain...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 24

1825 - 600 pages
...Hence, the poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment; ours is that of desire. The former had its foundation in the scene which is present, while the latter hovers between recollection and hope.' , . '. If this representation were accurate, gayety should beamply...
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Southern Review, Volume 7

1831 - 550 pages
...melancholy. Hence the poetry 'of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that 'of desire; the former has its foundation in the scene which is ' present, while the latter hovers hetween recollection and hope. ' Let us not be understood to affirm that every thing flows in 'one...
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The Messiah: A Poem in Six Books

Robert Montgomery - 1832 - 526 pages
...home. Hence, the poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours that of desire : the former has its foundation in the scene which is present,...while the latter hovers betwixt recollection and hope. — W. Schlegel. Note 20, p. 244. And though that hour for resurrection doom'd Be hidden, shrouded...
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The Messiah, a poem

Robert Montgomery - 1832 - 330 pages
...distant home. Hence, the poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours that of desire: the former has its foundation in the scene which is present, while the latter hovers betwixt recollection and hope.—W. Schlegel. Note 20, p. 244. And though that hour for resurrection doom'd Be hidden, shrouded...
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The Messiah, a poem

Robert Montgomery - 1832 - 474 pages
...home. Hence, tho poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours that of desire : the former has its foundation in the scene which is present, while the latter hovers betwixt recolleetion and hope. — W. Scldrgel. • Note i!0, p. '244. And thnngh timt hmir fur rcmrrirtion...
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The Italian Drama

Madame Calderón de la Barca (Frances Erskine Inglis) - 1834 - 280 pages
...is well remarked by a German critic, ' is the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that of desire ; the former has its foundation in the scene which is present, while the latter hovers between recollection and hope.' Without an antecedent literature, no charges of plagiarism could be...
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Shakespeare [sic] and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ...

Nathan Drake - 1843 - 970 pages
...melancholy. Hence Ihe poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that of desire : the reat feast was held, and, after dinner, the representation...the coming of the Queen of Sbcba was made, or (as ' Sec Gent. Magazine, vol. Ixxxv. p. 319, and Biogrnphia Dramática, 1782, vol. ip 118, article Davenport....
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Writings of Hugh Swinton Legaré ...: Consisting of a Diary of ..., Volume 2

Hugh Swinton Legaré - 1845 - 606 pages
...melancholy. Hence the poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that of desire; the former has its foundation in the scene which is present, while the latter hovers between recollection and hope. Let us not be understood to affirm that every thing flows in one strain...
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Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 1-2

1846 - 906 pages
...songs ? Hence the poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that of desire ; the former has its foundation in the scene which is present,...the latter hovers betwixt recollection and hope." (Dram. Lit. Sect. 1.) Now, admitting that these views, so eloquently unfolded, are no more than partially...
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