Lectures on the English PoetsT. Miller, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... Beggar's Opera is hooted from the stage . Society , by degrees , is constructed into a machine that carries us safely and insipidly from one end of life to the other , in a ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 19.
... Beggar's Opera is hooted from the stage . Society , by degrees , is constructed into a machine that carries us safely and insipidly from one end of life to the other , in a ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 19.
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... Beggar's Opera . In a word , Crabbe is the only poet who has attempted and succeeded in the still life of tragedy : who gives the stagnation of hope and fear 192 ON THOMSON AND COWPER .
... Beggar's Opera . In a word , Crabbe is the only poet who has attempted and succeeded in the still life of tragedy : who gives the stagnation of hope and fear 192 ON THOMSON AND COWPER .
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... Beggar's Opera . But in his lyrical and fugitive pieces he has shown even more genius , more playfulness , more mis- chievous gaiety . No one has exceeded him in the laughing grace with which he glances at a subject that will not bear ...
... Beggar's Opera . But in his lyrical and fugitive pieces he has shown even more genius , more playfulness , more mis- chievous gaiety . No one has exceeded him in the laughing grace with which he glances at a subject that will not bear ...
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... Beggar's Opera . It is indeed a masterpiece of wit and genius , not to say of morality . In composing it , he chose a very un- promising ground to work upon , and he has prided himself in adorning it with all the graces , the precision ...
... Beggar's Opera . It is indeed a masterpiece of wit and genius , not to say of morality . In composing it , he chose a very un- promising ground to work upon , and he has prided himself in adorning it with all the graces , the precision ...
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... Beggar's Opera is a good - natured but instructive comment on this text . The poet has thrown all the gaiety and sunshine of the imagination , all the intoxica- tion of pleasure , and the vanity of despair , 214 ON SWIFT , YOUNG , GRAY ...
... Beggar's Opera is a good - natured but instructive comment on this text . The poet has thrown all the gaiety and sunshine of the imagination , all the intoxica- tion of pleasure , and the vanity of despair , 214 ON SWIFT , YOUNG , GRAY ...
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