Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... beauty , or power , or harmony , as in the motion of a wave of the sea , in the growth of a flower that " spreads its sweet leaves to the air , and dedicates its beauty to the sun , " - there is poetry , in its birth . If history is a ...
... beauty , or power , or harmony , as in the motion of a wave of the sea , in the growth of a flower that " spreads its sweet leaves to the air , and dedicates its beauty to the sun , " - there is poetry , in its birth . If history is a ...
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... beauty in a brow of Egypt . The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling , Doth glance from heav'n to earth , from earth to heav'n ; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives ...
... beauty in a brow of Egypt . The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling , Doth glance from heav'n to earth , from earth to heav'n ; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives ...
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... beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself ; that is impatient of all limit ; that ( as flame bends to flame ) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur ; to enshrine itself , as it were , in ...
... beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself ; that is impatient of all limit ; that ( as flame bends to flame ) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur ; to enshrine itself , as it were , in ...
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... beauty , a more lustrous effect to the imagination than the purest gold . We compare a man of gigantic stature to a tower : not that he is any thing like so large , but because the ex- cess of his size beyond what we are accustomed to ...
... beauty , a more lustrous effect to the imagination than the purest gold . We compare a man of gigantic stature to a tower : not that he is any thing like so large , but because the ex- cess of his size beyond what we are accustomed to ...
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... beauty . It is as natural to hate as to love , to despise as to admire , to express our hatred or contempt , as our love or admiration . " Masterless passion sways us to the mood Of what it likes or loathes . " Not that we like what we ...
... beauty . It is as natural to hate as to love , to despise as to admire , to express our hatred or contempt , as our love or admiration . " Masterless passion sways us to the mood Of what it likes or loathes . " Not that we like what we ...
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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.