Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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Página 123
... Read any other blank verse but Milton's , -Thomson's , Young's , Cowper's , Wordsworth's , -and it will be found , from the want of the same insight into " the hidden soul of harmony , " to be ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON . 123.
... Read any other blank verse but Milton's , -Thomson's , Young's , Cowper's , Wordsworth's , -and it will be found , from the want of the same insight into " the hidden soul of harmony , " to be ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON . 123.
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... to set a seal on his reputation * Burns . These lines are taken from the introduction to Mr. Wordsworth's poem of the LEECH - GATHERER . by a tragic catastrophe . He had done his best ON SWIFT , YOUNG , GRAY , & c . 243.
... to set a seal on his reputation * Burns . These lines are taken from the introduction to Mr. Wordsworth's poem of the LEECH - GATHERER . by a tragic catastrophe . He had done his best ON SWIFT , YOUNG , GRAY , & c . 243.
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... his genius . It has been usual to attack Burns's moral cha- racter , and the moral tendency of his writings at the same time ; and Mr. Wordsworth , in a letter to Mr. Gray , Master of the High School at ON BURNS , AND THE OLD BALLADS . 255.
... his genius . It has been usual to attack Burns's moral cha- racter , and the moral tendency of his writings at the same time ; and Mr. Wordsworth , in a letter to Mr. Gray , Master of the High School at ON BURNS , AND THE OLD BALLADS . 255.
Página 256
... Wordsworth's ) remembrance ; but he betrays very little liking to Burns . He is , indeed , anxious to get him out of the unhallowed clutches of the Edinburgh Reviewers ( as a mere matter of poetical privilege ) , only to bring him ...
... Wordsworth's ) remembrance ; but he betrays very little liking to Burns . He is , indeed , anxious to get him out of the unhallowed clutches of the Edinburgh Reviewers ( as a mere matter of poetical privilege ) , only to bring him ...
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... Wordsworth might have quoted such lines as- or , " The landlady and Tam grew gracious , Wi ' favours secret , sweet , and precious ; " " Care , mad to see a man so happy , E'en drown'd himself among the nappy ; " - and fairly confessed ...
... Wordsworth might have quoted such lines as- or , " The landlady and Tam grew gracious , Wi ' favours secret , sweet , and precious ; " " Care , mad to see a man so happy , E'en drown'd himself among the nappy ; " - and fairly confessed ...
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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.