Lectures on the English Poets, and the English Comic WritersBell, 1869 - 232 páginas |
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... comes home to the bosoms and businesses of men ; for nothing but what so comes home to them in the most general and intelligible shape can be a subject for poetry . Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and ...
... comes home to the bosoms and businesses of men ; for nothing but what so comes home to them in the most general and intelligible shape can be a subject for poetry . Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and ...
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... come as near to poetry as possible without absolutely being so ; namely , the Pilgrim's Progress , Robinson Crusoe , and the Tales of Boccaccio . Chaucer and Dryden have translated some of the last into English rhyme , but the essence ...
... come as near to poetry as possible without absolutely being so ; namely , the Pilgrim's Progress , Robinson Crusoe , and the Tales of Boccaccio . Chaucer and Dryden have translated some of the last into English rhyme , but the essence ...
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... come after them . Their poetry , like their religious creed , is vast , unformed , obscure and infinite ; a vision is upon it ; an invisible hand is suspended over it . The spirit of the Christian religion consists in the glory ...
... come after them . Their poetry , like their religious creed , is vast , unformed , obscure and infinite ; a vision is upon it ; an invisible hand is suspended over it . The spirit of the Christian religion consists in the glory ...
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... come after him ; but there is a gloomy abstrac- tion in his conceptions , which lies like a dead weight upon the mind - a benumbing stupor , a breathless awe , from the intensity of the impression - a terrible obscurity , like that ...
... come after him ; but there is a gloomy abstrac- tion in his conceptions , which lies like a dead weight upon the mind - a benumbing stupor , a breathless awe , from the intensity of the impression - a terrible obscurity , like that ...
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... come rushing in the greves , And breking bothe the boughes and the leves " : or that still finer one of Constance , when she is condemned to death : " Have ye not seen sometime a pale face ( Among a prees ) of him that hath been lad ...
... come rushing in the greves , And breking bothe the boughes and the leves " : or that still finer one of Constance , when she is condemned to death : " Have ye not seen sometime a pale face ( Among a prees ) of him that hath been lad ...
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