Lectures on the English Poets, and the English Comic WritersBell, 1869 - 232 páginas |
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... never existed but in the brain of the inventor ; and Homer's poetical world has outlived Plato's philosophical Republic . Poetry then is an imitation of nature , but the imagina- tion and the passions are a part of man's nature . We ...
... never existed but in the brain of the inventor ; and Homer's poetical world has outlived Plato's philosophical Republic . Poetry then is an imitation of nature , but the imagina- tion and the passions are a part of man's nature . We ...
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... Never , Iago . Like to the Pontic sea , Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb , but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont : Even so my bloody thoughts , with violent pace , Shall ne'er look back ...
... Never , Iago . Like to the Pontic sea , Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb , but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont : Even so my bloody thoughts , with violent pace , Shall ne'er look back ...
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... never be another Jacob's Dream . Since that time , the heavens have gone farther off , and grown astrono- mical . They have become averse to the imagination ; nor will they return to us on the squares of the distances , or on Doctor ...
... never be another Jacob's Dream . Since that time , the heavens have gone farther off , and grown astrono- mical . They have become averse to the imagination ; nor will they return to us on the squares of the distances , or on Doctor ...
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... never thought of afterwards with indifference , John Bunyan and Daniel Defoe may be permitted to pass for poets in their way . The mixture of fancy and reality in the Pilgrim's Progress was never equalled in any allegory . His pilgrims ...
... never thought of afterwards with indifference , John Bunyan and Daniel Defoe may be permitted to pass for poets in their way . The mixture of fancy and reality in the Pilgrim's Progress was never equalled in any allegory . His pilgrims ...
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... never pass away . of Ruth , again , is as if all the depth of natural affection in the human race was involved in her breast . There are descriptions in the book of Job more prodigal of imagery , more intense in passion , than any thing ...
... never pass away . of Ruth , again , is as if all the depth of natural affection in the human race was involved in her breast . There are descriptions in the book of Job more prodigal of imagery , more intense in passion , than any thing ...
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