Lectures on the English Poets, and the English Comic WritersBell, 1869 - 232 páginas |
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... passes naturally into intonation , there poetry begins . Where one idea gives a tone and colour to others , where one feeling melts others into it , there can be no reason why the same principle should not be extended to the sounds by ...
... passes naturally into intonation , there poetry begins . Where one idea gives a tone and colour to others , where one feeling melts others into it , there can be no reason why the same principle should not be extended to the sounds by ...
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... passes for such : nor does verse make the whole difference between poetry and prose . The Iliad does not cease to be ... pass for poets in their way . The mixture of fancy and reality in the Pilgrim's Progress was never equalled in any ...
... passes for such : nor does verse make the whole difference between poetry and prose . The Iliad does not cease to be ... pass for poets in their way . The mixture of fancy and reality in the Pilgrim's Progress was never equalled in any ...
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... passes by them . The multitude of things in Homer is wonderful ; their splendour , their truth , their force and variety . His poetry is , like his religion , the poetry of number and form : he describes the bodies as well as the souls ...
... passes by them . The multitude of things in Homer is wonderful ; their splendour , their truth , their force and variety . His poetry is , like his religion , the poetry of number and form : he describes the bodies as well as the souls ...
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... 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 in ...
... 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 in ...
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... passes over them , to sigh and rustle like the dry reeds in the winter's wind ! The feel- ing of cheerless desolation , of the loss of the pith and sap of existence , of the annihilation of the substance , and the clinging to the shadow ...
... passes over them , to sigh and rustle like the dry reeds in the winter's wind ! The feel- ing of cheerless desolation , of the loss of the pith and sap of existence , of the annihilation of the substance , and the clinging to the shadow ...
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