Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... 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 , AND THE OLD ENGLISH BALLADS LECTURE VIII . ON THE LIVING POETS • · 245 ...
... 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 , AND THE OLD ENGLISH BALLADS LECTURE VIII . ON THE LIVING POETS • · 245 ...
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... 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 longings , is ...
... 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 longings , is ...
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... Dryden's version . For instance , such lines as the following are not rendered with their true feeling . Why shulde I not as well eke tell you all The purtreiture that was upon the wall Within the temple of mighty Mars the rede- That ...
... Dryden's version . For instance , such lines as the following are not rendered with their true feeling . Why shulde I not as well eke tell you all The purtreiture that was upon the wall Within the temple of mighty Mars the rede- That ...
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... Dryden is the most sounding and varied of our rhymists . But in neither is there any thing like the same ear for music , the same power of approximating the varieties of poetical to those of musical rhythm , as there is in our great ...
... Dryden is the most sounding and varied of our rhymists . But in neither is there any thing like the same ear for music , the same power of approximating the varieties of poetical to those of musical rhythm , as there is in our great ...
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... : Some natural tears they dropt , but wip'd them soon ; The world was all before them , where to choose Their place of rest , and Providence their guide . " LECTURE IV . ON DRYDEN AND POPE . DRYDEN and 134 ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON .
... : Some natural tears they dropt , but wip'd them soon ; The world was all before them , where to choose Their place of rest , and Providence their guide . " LECTURE IV . ON DRYDEN AND POPE . DRYDEN and 134 ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON .
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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.