Lectures on the English Poets, and the English Comic WritersBell, 1869 - 232 páginas |
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... character he impresses upon them . His mind lends its own power to the objects which it contemplates , instead of borrowing it from them . He takes advantage even of the nakedness and dreary vacuity of his subject . His imagination ...
... character he impresses upon them . His mind lends its own power to the objects which it contemplates , instead of borrowing it from them . He takes advantage even of the nakedness and dreary vacuity of his subject . His imagination ...
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... character , and the tone of his writings . Yet it would be too much to attribute the one to the other as cause and effect : for Spenser , whose poet- ical temperament was as effeminate as Chaucer's was stern and masculine , was equally ...
... character , and the tone of his writings . Yet it would be too much to attribute the one to the other as cause and effect : for Spenser , whose poet- ical temperament was as effeminate as Chaucer's was stern and masculine , was equally ...
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... character belonging to them , and produce the effect of sculpture on the mind . Chaucer had an equal eye for truth of nature and discrimination of character ; and his interest in what he saw gave new distinctness and force to his power ...
... character belonging to them , and produce the effect of sculpture on the mind . Chaucer had an equal eye for truth of nature and discrimination of character ; and his interest in what he saw gave new distinctness and force to his power ...
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... characters of men never change , though manners , opinions , and institutions may ) to know what has become of this character of the Sompnoure in the present day ; whether or not it has any technical representative in existing ...
... characters of men never change , though manners , opinions , and institutions may ) to know what has become of this character of the Sompnoure in the present day ; whether or not it has any technical representative in existing ...
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... character . Nobody but Rubens could have painted the fancy of Spenser ; and he could not have given the sentiment , the airy dream that hovers over it ! With all this , Spenser neither makes us laugh nor weep . The only jest in his poem ...
... character . Nobody but Rubens could have painted the fancy of Spenser ; and he could not have given the sentiment , the airy dream that hovers over it ! With all this , Spenser neither makes us laugh nor weep . The only jest in his poem ...
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