Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... admiration . " Masterless passion sways us to the mood Of what it likes or loathes . " Not that we like what we loathe ; but we like to indulge our hatred and scorn of it ; to dwell upon it , to exasperate our idea of it by every re ...
... admiration . " Masterless passion sways us to the mood Of what it likes or loathes . " Not that we like what we loathe ; but we like to indulge our hatred and scorn of it ; to dwell upon it , to exasperate our idea of it by every re ...
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... admiration . Poetry in its matter and form is natural imagery or feeling , combined with passion and fancy . In its mode of conveyance , it combines the ordinary use of language with musical ex- pression . There is a question of long ...
... admiration . Poetry in its matter and form is natural imagery or feeling , combined with passion and fancy . In its mode of conveyance , it combines the ordinary use of language with musical ex- pression . There is a question of long ...
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... ) 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.
... ) 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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William Hazlitt. very admirably modernised ) is , perhaps , unequal- led as a comic story . The Cock and the Fox is ... admirable ) picture of Death on the Pale Horse , it is observed , that " In poetry the same effect 64 ON CHAUCER AND ...
William Hazlitt. very admirably modernised ) is , perhaps , unequal- led as a comic story . The Cock and the Fox is ... admirable ) picture of Death on the Pale Horse , it is observed , that " In poetry the same effect 64 ON CHAUCER AND ...
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... by magnitude and distance , by their per- manence and universality . The one fill us with terror and pity , the other with admiration and delight . There are certain objects that strike the imagination 102 ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON .
... by magnitude and distance , by their per- manence and universality . The one fill us with terror and pity , the other with admiration and delight . There are certain objects that strike the imagination 102 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.