Lectures on the English Poets, and the English Comic WritersBell, 1869 - 232 páginas |
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... verse . Milton has told us his idea of poetry in a single line : " Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers . " As there are certain sounds that excite certain move- ments , and the song and dance go together , so there are , no ...
... verse . Milton has told us his idea of poetry in a single line : " Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers . " As there are certain sounds that excite certain move- ments , and the song and dance go together , so there are , no ...
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... the sense , " when the sense becomes a sort of echo to itself — to mingle the tide of verse , " the golden cadences of poetry , " with the tide of feeling , flowing and murmuring as it flows -- in 16 On Poetry in General .
... the sense , " when the sense becomes a sort of echo to itself — to mingle the tide of verse , " the golden cadences of poetry , " with the tide of feeling , flowing and murmuring as it flows -- in 16 On Poetry in General .
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... verse or measured prose . The merchant , as described in Chaucer , went on his way " sounding always the increase of his winning . " Every prose - writer has more or less of rhythmical adaptation , except poets who , when deprived of ...
... verse or measured prose . The merchant , as described in Chaucer , went on his way " sounding always the increase of his winning . " Every prose - writer has more or less of rhythmical adaptation , except poets who , when deprived of ...
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... verse is the perfection of dramatic dialogue . All is not poetry that passes for such : nor does verse make the whole difference between poetry and prose . The Iliad does not cease to be poetry in a literal translation ; and Addison's ...
... verse is the perfection of dramatic dialogue . All is not poetry that passes for such : nor does verse make the whole difference between poetry and prose . The Iliad does not cease to be poetry in a literal translation ; and Addison's ...
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... the action , or flowing on in a fuller tide of harmony with the movement of the senti- ment . It has not the bold dramatic transitions of Shak- " speare's blank verse , nor the high - raised tone 56 On Chaucer and Spenser .
... the action , or flowing on in a fuller tide of harmony with the movement of the senti- ment . It has not the bold dramatic transitions of Shak- " speare's blank verse , nor the high - raised tone 56 On Chaucer and Spenser .
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absurdity admirable affectation appear beauty Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson blank verse Boccaccio character Chaucer circumstances comedy comic common critics delight Don Quixote dramatic elegance equal excellence face fame fancy feeling folly genius Gil Blas give grace happy heart Hogarth Hudibras human humour idea imagination imitation instance interest kind labour Lady language laugh less light living look Lord lover ludicrous Lyrical Ballads manners Milton mind Molière moral Muse nature never night objects original Othello painted passion person picture play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope prose racter reader refinement ridiculous satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment Shakspeare Shakspeare's sort soul speak Spenser spirit story striking style Tartuffe Tatler thee things thou thought tion Tom Jones truth turn verse vice whole William Hazlitt words writer