Excerpt from Other Poems Poetry is not so much the art of express ing, in harmonious numbers, the' thoughts and emotions of the mind, as the power of exhibiting those thoughts and emotions, so as'to produce a feeling of interest in the minds of others. It is not so much the lan guage, as the spirit that pervades it, which constitutes the charm of poetry; and hence it arises, that the most truly poetical ideas are often entirely destitute of What some af feet to consider the necessary-accompani ment of measured ...
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Excerpt from Other Poems Poetry is not so much the art of express ing, in harmonious numbers, the' thoughts and emotions of the mind, as the power of exhibiting those thoughts and emotions, so as'to produce a feeling of interest in the minds of others. It is not so much the lan guage, as the spirit that pervades it, which constitutes the charm of poetry; and hence it arises, that the most truly poetical ideas are often entirely destitute of What some af feet to consider the necessary-accompani ment of measured versification. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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