Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... affectation , as the occasion seems to require . The following are some of the finest in- stances : His hand was known In Heaven by many a tower'd structure high ; - Nor was his name unheard or unador'd In ancient Greece : and in the ...
... affectation , as the occasion seems to require . The following are some of the finest in- stances : His hand was known In Heaven by many a tower'd structure high ; - Nor was his name unheard or unador'd In ancient Greece : and in the ...
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... affectation . A toilette is described with the solemnity of an altar raised to the God- dess of vanity , and the history of a silver bodkin is given with all the pomp of heraldry . No pains are spared , no profusion of ornament , no ...
... affectation . A toilette is described with the solemnity of an altar raised to the God- dess of vanity , and the history of a silver bodkin is given with all the pomp of heraldry . No pains are spared , no profusion of ornament , no ...
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... affectation , or false ornaments . It is for this reason that he is , perhaps , the most popular of all our poets , treating of a subject that all can under- stand , and in a way that is interesting to all alike , to the ignorant or the ...
... affectation , or false ornaments . It is for this reason that he is , perhaps , the most popular of all our poets , treating of a subject that all can under- stand , and in a way that is interesting to all alike , to the ignorant or the ...
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... affectation , and in the end , degenerate into it from the natural spirit of contradiction , and the con- stant uneasy sense of disappointment and unde- served ridicule . But to return . Crabbe is , if not the most natural , the most ...
... affectation , and in the end , degenerate into it from the natural spirit of contradiction , and the con- stant uneasy sense of disappointment and unde- served ridicule . But to return . Crabbe is , if not the most natural , the most ...
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... this kind . Pope's are as full of senseless finery and trite affectation , as if a peer of the realm were to sit for his picture with a crook and cocked hat on , smiling with an insipid air of no ON THOMSON AND COWPER . 193.
... this kind . Pope's are as full of senseless finery and trite affectation , as if a peer of the realm were to sit for his picture with a crook and cocked hat on , smiling with an insipid air of no ON THOMSON AND COWPER . 193.
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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.