On Teaching English: With Detailed Examples And An Enquiry Into the Definition of Poetry

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On Teaching English: With Detailed Examples And An Enquiry Into the Definition of Poetry
Bain, Alexander, 1818-1903
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To get at the actual stages of the world's progress from its begin- ning, would be interesting in the highest degree; to arrive even at a probable hypothesis would be a great satisfaction.
If we can attain to neither the one nor the other, and are to exercise our imagination simply, we must follow the laws of imaginative or emotional effect ; we must be furnished with a conception thoroughly congenial to some habitual strain of feel- ing. Now there is at least one expression of creative agency
...that attains the utmost pitch of sublimity as a stroke of imagina- 184 EMOTIONAL QUAUTIES — SELECT LESSONS.
tion, namely^ '^God said^ Let there be light, and there was light ". This may cease to be regarded as a literal fact, but it will never lose its effect on the human mind. We saw that Dryden slipped out of his musical cause, and took in the voice of command ; and his instinct was right A lofty personality exercising vast sway by a commanding word, is one of the things that affect us with the emotion of the sublime at its utmost stretch (see Paradise Losty III.


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