Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... CHAUCER AND SPENSER . · 39 LECTURE III . ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON . . 86 ON DRYDEN AND POPE LECTURE IV . LECTURE V. ON THOMSON AND COWPER . · 135 • 168 · 206 LECTURE VI . ON SWIFT , YOUNG , GRAY , COLLINS , & c . LECTURE VII . ON BURNS ...
... CHAUCER AND SPENSER . · 39 LECTURE III . ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON . . 86 ON DRYDEN AND POPE LECTURE IV . LECTURE V. ON THOMSON AND COWPER . · 135 • 168 · 206 LECTURE VI . ON SWIFT , YOUNG , GRAY , COLLINS , & c . LECTURE VII . ON BURNS ...
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... well observed , that every one who declaims warmly , or grows intent upon a subject , rises into a sort of blank verse or measured prose . The merchant , as described in Chaucer , went on his way " sounding ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 25.
... well observed , that every one who declaims warmly , or grows intent upon a subject , rises into a sort of blank verse or measured prose . The merchant , as described in Chaucer , went on his way " sounding ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 25.
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William Hazlitt. 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 the regular mechanism of ...
William Hazlitt. 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 the regular mechanism of ...
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... Chaucer and Dryden have translated some of the last into English rhyme , but the essence and the power of poetry was there before . That which lifts the spirit above the earth , which draws the soul out of itself with indescribable ...
... Chaucer and Dryden have translated some of the last into English rhyme , but the essence and the power of poetry was there before . That which lifts the spirit above the earth , which draws the soul out of itself with indescribable ...
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... heart , another confirmation of that feeling which makes him so often complain , " Roll on , ye dark brown years , ye bring no joy on your wing to Ossian ! " LECTURE II . • ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . HAVING 38 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... heart , another confirmation of that feeling which makes him so often complain , " Roll on , ye dark brown years , ye bring no joy on your wing to Ossian ! " LECTURE II . • ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . HAVING 38 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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admirable affectation allegory appear Ballads beauty Beggar's Opera blank verse Boccaccio Burns character Chaucer common Cutty Sark death delight describes doth Dryden equal excellence face Faery Queen fame fancy feeling finest flowers genius give Gonne grace Gulliver's Travels happy hates hath heart heaven hire Homer human idea images imagination interest kind Knight's Tale labour language less light lines living look Lord Lord Byron Lyrical Ballads manners Milton mind moral Muse nature never o'er objects painted passion pathos person pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise prose racter reader rhyme satire sense sentiment Shakspeare shew song soul sound Spenser spirit spring story style sweet Tam o'Shanter ther thing thou thought tion Titian tree truth verse Whan wings wolde words Wordsworth writer wyllowe-tree youth
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Página 279 - The effect of reading this old ballad is as if all our hopes and fears hung upon the last fibre of the heart, and we felt that giving way. What silence, what loneliness, what leisure for grief and despair '. ' My father pressed me sair, my mother didna speak. But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break.