Lectures on the English Poets, and the English Comic WritersBell, 1869 - 232 páginas |
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... happy seat of man , His journey's end , and our beginning woe . But first he casts to change his proper shape , Which else might work him danger or delay : And now a stripling cherub he appears , Not of the prime , yet such as in his ...
... happy seat of man , His journey's end , and our beginning woe . But first he casts to change his proper shape , Which else might work him danger or delay : And now a stripling cherub he appears , Not of the prime , yet such as in his ...
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... happy isles , " & c . The verse , in this exquisitely modulated passage , floats up and down as if it had itself wings . Milton has himself given us the theory of his versification : 1 " Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes 82 ...
... happy isles , " & c . The verse , in this exquisitely modulated passage , floats up and down as if it had itself wings . Milton has himself given us the theory of his versification : 1 " Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes 82 ...
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... happy fields , Where joy for ever dwells : Hail horrors , hail Infernal world , and thou profoundest Hell , Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time . The mind is its own place , and in itself ...
... happy fields , Where joy for ever dwells : Hail horrors , hail Infernal world , and thou profoundest Hell , Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time . The mind is its own place , and in itself ...
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... happy seat , Wav'd over by that flaming brand , the gate With dreadful faces throng'd , and fiery arms : Some natural tears they dropt , but wip'd them soon ; The world was all before them , where to choose Their place of rest , and ...
... happy seat , Wav'd over by that flaming brand , the gate With dreadful faces throng'd , and fiery arms : Some natural tears they dropt , but wip'd them soon ; The world was all before them , where to choose Their place of rest , and ...
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... happy than the general remarks and illustrations in the Essay : the critical rules laid down are too much those of a school , and of a confined There is one passage in the Essay on Criticism in which the author speaks with that eloquent ...
... happy than the general remarks and illustrations in the Essay : the critical rules laid down are too much those of a school , and of a confined There is one passage in the Essay on Criticism in which the author speaks with that eloquent ...
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