Lectures on the English PoetsT. Miller, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... person who has just trod upon a serpent with the still - life expres- sion of a common portrait , as the poet to describe the most striking and vivid impressions which things can be supposed to make upon the mind , in the language of ...
... person who has just trod upon a serpent with the still - life expres- sion of a common portrait , as the poet to describe the most striking and vivid impressions which things can be supposed to make upon the mind , in the language of ...
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... person who has seen some object of horror . The improbability of the events , the abruptness and monotony in the Inferno , are excessive but the interest never flags , from the continued earnestness of the author's mind . Dante's great ...
... person who has seen some object of horror . The improbability of the events , the abruptness and monotony in the Inferno , are excessive but the interest never flags , from the continued earnestness of the author's mind . Dante's great ...
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... persons and things that he had known and been intimately concerned in ; the same op- portunities , operating on a differently constituted frame , only served to alienate Spenser's mind the more from the " close - pent up " scenes of ...
... persons and things that he had known and been intimately concerned in ; the same op- portunities , operating on a differently constituted frame , only served to alienate Spenser's mind the more from the " close - pent up " scenes of ...
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... persons really concerned : yet as he never omits any material circumstance , he is prolix from the number of points on which he touches , without being diffuse on any one ; and is sometimes tedi- ous from the fidelity with which he ...
... persons really concerned : yet as he never omits any material circumstance , he is prolix from the number of points on which he touches , without being diffuse on any one ; and is sometimes tedi- ous from the fidelity with which he ...
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... persons he describes must have felt , than perhaps those of any other poet . His sentiments are not voluntary effusions of the poet's fancy , but founded on the natural impulses and habitual pre- judices of the characters he has to ...
... persons he describes must have felt , than perhaps those of any other poet . His sentiments are not voluntary effusions of the poet's fancy , but founded on the natural impulses and habitual pre- judices of the characters he has to ...
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