Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... 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 • 283 BIBL TA ...
... 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 • 283 BIBL TA ...
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... Pope says of the Lord Mayor's shew , — " Now night descending , the proud scene is o'er , But lives in Settle's numbers one day more ! " -when Collins makes Danger , " with limbs of giant mould , " " Throw him on the steep Of some loose ...
... Pope says of the Lord Mayor's shew , — " Now night descending , the proud scene is o'er , But lives in Settle's numbers one day more ! " -when Collins makes Danger , " with limbs of giant mould , " " Throw him on the steep Of some loose ...
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... Pope's ver- sification is tiresome , from its excessive sweetness and uniformity . Shakspeare's blank verse is the perfection of dramatic dialogue . All is not poetry that passes for such : nor 26 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... Pope's ver- sification is tiresome , from its excessive sweetness and uniformity . Shakspeare's blank verse is the perfection of dramatic dialogue . All is not poetry that passes for such : nor 26 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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... Pope Anastasius the Sixth : " and half the personages whom he has crowded into the Inferno are his own acquaintance . All this , perhaps , tends to heighten the effect by the bold intermixture of realities , and by an appeal , as it ...
... Pope Anastasius the Sixth : " and half the personages whom he has crowded into the Inferno are his own acquaintance . All this , perhaps , tends to heighten the effect by the bold intermixture of realities , and by an appeal , as it ...
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... found in nature , ) and was exclusively taken up with what he set about , whether it was jest or earnest . The Wife of Bath's Prologue ( which Pope has very admirably modernised ) is , perhaps , unequal- led ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 63.
... found in nature , ) and was exclusively taken up with what he set about , whether it was jest or earnest . The Wife of Bath's Prologue ( which Pope has very admirably modernised ) is , perhaps , unequal- led ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 63.
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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.