Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... of what we wish things to be , and fancy that they are , because we wish them so , there is no other nor better reality . Ariosto has described the loves of Angelica and Medoro : but was not Medoro , who ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... of what we wish things to be , and fancy that they are , because we wish them so , there is no other nor better reality . Ariosto has described the loves of Angelica and Medoro : but was not Medoro , who ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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... better than Claude Lorraine's landscapes , than Titian's portraits , than Raphael's cartoons , or the Greek statues ? Of the two first I shall say nothing , as they are evidently pictu- resque , rather than imaginative . Raphael's car ...
... better than Claude Lorraine's landscapes , than Titian's portraits , than Raphael's cartoons , or the Greek statues ? Of the two first I shall say nothing , as they are evidently pictu- resque , rather than imaginative . Raphael's car ...
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... better . What is mechanical , reducible to rule , or capable of de- monstration , is progressive , and admits of gradual improvement : what is not mechanical , or definite , but depends on feeling , taste , and genius , very soon ...
... better . What is mechanical , reducible to rule , or capable of de- monstration , is progressive , and admits of gradual improvement : what is not mechanical , or definite , but depends on feeling , taste , and genius , very soon ...
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... better than his come- dies , because tragedy is better than comedy . His female characters , which have been found fault with as insipid , are the finest in the world . Lastly , Shakspeare was the least of a coxcomb of any one that ever ...
... better than his come- dies , because tragedy is better than comedy . His female characters , which have been found fault with as insipid , are the finest in the world . Lastly , Shakspeare was the least of a coxcomb of any one that ever ...
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... Chineses drive With sails and wind their cany waggons light . " If Milton had taken a journey for the express purpose , he could not have described this scenery and mode of life better . Such passages are like 116 ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON .
... Chineses drive With sails and wind their cany waggons light . " If Milton had taken a journey for the express purpose , he could not have described this scenery and mode of life better . Such passages are like 116 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.