Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... 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 , AND THE OLD ENGLISH BALLADS LECTURE VIII . ON THE LIVING ...
... 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 , AND THE OLD ENGLISH BALLADS LECTURE VIII . ON THE LIVING ...
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... 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 movements , and the song and dance go together , so there are , no doubt ...
... 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 movements , and the song and dance go together , so there are , no doubt ...
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... Milton , it was necessary to endow it , if possible , with the appearance of super - human strength and energy . He has therefore exerted the utmost force and perspicuity of his pencil on the central figure . " - One might suppose from ...
... Milton , it was necessary to endow it , if possible , with the appearance of super - human strength and energy . He has therefore exerted the utmost force and perspicuity of his pencil on the central figure . " - One might suppose from ...
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... harmony with the movement of the sentiment . It has not the bold dramatic transitions of Shak- speare's blank verse , nor the high - raised tone of Milton's ; but it is the perfection of melting har- 84 ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
... harmony with the movement of the sentiment . It has not the bold dramatic transitions of Shak- speare's blank verse , nor the high - raised tone of Milton's ; but it is the perfection of melting har- 84 ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
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William Hazlitt. Milton's ; but it is the perfection of melting har- mony , dissolving the soul in pleasure , or holding it captive in the chains of suspense . Spenser was the poet of our ... MILTON . IN looking ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 85.
William Hazlitt. Milton's ; but it is the perfection of melting har- mony , dissolving the soul in pleasure , or holding it captive in the chains of suspense . Spenser was the poet of our ... MILTON . IN looking ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 85.
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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.