Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... muse is no " babbling gossip of the air , " fluent and redundant ; but , like a stammerer , or a dumb person , that has just found the use of speech , crowds many things together with eager haste , with anxious pauses , and fond ...
... muse is no " babbling gossip of the air , " fluent and redundant ; but , like a stammerer , or a dumb person , that has just found the use of speech , crowds many things together with eager haste , with anxious pauses , and fond ...
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... Muses ' mysteries ! " On the contrary , no one was more apt to pry into mysteries which do not strictly belong to the Muses . Of the same kind with the Procession of the Passions , as little obscure , and still more beautiful , is the ...
... Muses ' mysteries ! " On the contrary , no one was more apt to pry into mysteries which do not strictly belong to the Muses . Of the same kind with the Procession of the Passions , as little obscure , and still more beautiful , is the ...
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... path before it , and sheds a glory round the Muses ' feet , like that which " Circled Una's angel face , And made a sunshine in the shady place . " The four greatest names in English poetry , are almost ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON . 89.
... path before it , and sheds a glory round the Muses ' feet , like that which " Circled Una's angel face , And made a sunshine in the shady place . " The four greatest names in English poetry , are almost ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON . 89.
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... Muses ; a hymn to Fame . He had his thoughts constantly fixed on the contemplation of the Hebrew theo- cracy , and of a perfect commonwealth ; and he seized the pen with a hand just warm from the touch of the ark of faith . His ...
... Muses ; a hymn to Fame . He had his thoughts constantly fixed on the contemplation of the Hebrew theo- cracy , and of a perfect commonwealth ; and he seized the pen with a hand just warm from the touch of the ark of faith . His ...
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... Muse was not so simple or confined . A sound arises " like a steam of rich distilled perfumes ; " we hear the pealing organ , but the incense on the altars is also there , and the statues of the gods are ranged around ! The ear indeed ...
... Muse was not so simple or confined . A sound arises " like a steam of rich distilled perfumes ; " we hear the pealing organ , but the incense on the altars is also there , and the statues of the gods are ranged around ! The ear indeed ...
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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.