Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... appear such as it is . For know- ledge is conscious power ; and the mind is no longer , in this case , the dupe , though it may be the victim of vice or folly . of Poetry is in all its shapes the language of the imagination and the ...
... appear such as it is . For know- ledge is conscious power ; and the mind is no longer , in this case , the dupe , though it may be the victim of vice or folly . of Poetry is in all its shapes the language of the imagination and the ...
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... appear sufficient to themselves . By their beauty they are raised above the frailties of passion or suffering . By their beauty they are deified . But they are not objects of religious faith to us , and their forms are a reproach to ...
... appear sufficient to themselves . By their beauty they are raised above the frailties of passion or suffering . By their beauty they are deified . But they are not objects of religious faith to us , and their forms are a reproach to ...
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... appear , at any time , to have been the distinguishing virtue of poets . There is , however , an obvious similarity between the practical turn of Chaucer's mind and restless impatience of his character , and the tone of his writings ...
... appear , at any time , to have been the distinguishing virtue of poets . There is , however , an obvious similarity between the practical turn of Chaucer's mind and restless impatience of his character , and the tone of his writings ...
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... appear like the recollection of an actual scene : " Which as me thought was right a pleasing sight , And eke the briddes song for to here , Would haue rejoyced any earthly wight , And I that couth not yet in no manere Heare the ...
... appear like the recollection of an actual scene : " Which as me thought was right a pleasing sight , And eke the briddes song for to here , Would haue rejoyced any earthly wight , And I that couth not yet in no manere Heare the ...
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... appear . Unseemly man to please fair lady's eye : Yet he of ladies oft was loved dear , When fairer faces were bid standen by : O ! who does know the bent of woman's fantasy ? In a green gown he clothed was full fair , Which underneath ...
... appear . Unseemly man to please fair lady's eye : Yet he of ladies oft was loved dear , When fairer faces were bid standen by : O ! who does know the bent of woman's fantasy ? In a green gown he clothed was full fair , Which underneath ...
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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.