Lectures on the English Poets, and the English Comic WritersBell, 1869 - 232 páginas |
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... story of Jack the Giant - killer ; the shepherd - boy is a poet when he first crowns his mis- tress with a garland of flowers ; the countryman , when he stops to look at the rainbow ; the city apprentice , when he gazes after the Lord ...
... story of Jack the Giant - killer ; the shepherd - boy is a poet when he first crowns his mis- tress with a garland of flowers ; the countryman , when he stops to look at the rainbow ; the city apprentice , when he gazes after the Lord ...
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... stories of ghosts and witches in plain prose : nor do the hawkers of full , true , and particular accounts of murders and executions about the streets find it necessary to have them turned into penny ballads , before they can dispose of ...
... stories of ghosts and witches in plain prose : nor do the hawkers of full , true , and particular accounts of murders and executions about the streets find it necessary to have them turned into penny ballads , before they can dispose of ...
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... story of his adventures would not make a poem like the Odyssey , it is true ; but the relator had the true genius of a poet . It has been made a question whether Richardson's romances are poetry ; and the answer per- haps is , that they ...
... story of his adventures would not make a poem like the Odyssey , it is true ; but the relator had the true genius of a poet . It has been made a question whether Richardson's romances are poetry ; and the answer per- haps is , that they ...
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... story does not " give an echo to the seat where love is throned . " The heart does not answer of itself like a chord in music . The fancy does not run on before the writer with breathless expectation , but is dragged along with an ...
... story does not " give an echo to the seat where love is throned . " The heart does not answer of itself like a chord in music . The fancy does not run on before the writer with breathless expectation , but is dragged along with an ...
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... his prosperity , and of the vision that came upon him by night . The metaphors in the Old Testament are more boldly figurative , Things were collected more The story into masses , and gave a greater momentum to the 22 On Poetry in General .
... his prosperity , and of the vision that came upon him by night . The metaphors in the Old Testament are more boldly figurative , Things were collected more The story into masses , and gave a greater momentum to the 22 On Poetry in General .
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