Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... character he im- His mind lends its own presses upon them . power to the objects which it contemplates , in- stead of borrowing it from them . He takes ad- vantage even of the nakedness and dreary vacuity of his subject . His ...
... character he im- His mind lends its own presses upon them . power to the objects which it contemplates , in- stead of borrowing it from them . He takes ad- vantage even of the nakedness and dreary vacuity of his subject . His ...
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... character , and the tone of his writings . Yet it would be too much to attribute the one to the other as cause and effect : for Spenser , whose poetical temperament was as effeminate as Chaucer's was stern and mas- culine , was equally ...
... character , and the tone of his writings . Yet it would be too much to attribute the one to the other as cause and effect : for Spenser , whose poetical temperament was as effeminate as Chaucer's was stern and mas- culine , was equally ...
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... characters he has to represent . There is an inveteracy of purpose , a sincerity of feeling , which never relaxes or grows vapid , in whatever they do or say . There is no artificial , pompous display , but a strict parsimony of the ...
... characters he has to represent . There is an inveteracy of purpose , a sincerity of feeling , which never relaxes or grows vapid , in whatever they do or say . There is no artificial , pompous display , but a strict parsimony of the ...
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... character belonging to them , and produce the effect of sculpture on the mind . Chaucer had an equal eye for truth of nature and discrimina- tion of character ; and his interest in what he saw gave new distinctness and force to his ...
... character belonging to them , and produce the effect of sculpture on the mind . Chaucer had an equal eye for truth of nature and discrimina- tion of character ; and his interest in what he saw gave new distinctness and force to his ...
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... characters of men never change , though manners , opinions , and institutions may ) to know what has become of this character of the Sompnoure in the present day ; whether or not it has any technical representative in existing ...
... characters of men never change , though manners , opinions , and institutions may ) to know what has become of this character of the Sompnoure in the present day ; whether or not it has any technical representative in existing ...
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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.