Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... circumstance of glorious war : And O you mortal engines , whose rude throats Th ' immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit , Farewel ! Othello's occupation's gone ! " How his passion lashes itself up and swells and rages like a tide ...
... circumstance of glorious war : And O you mortal engines , whose rude throats Th ' immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit , Farewel ! Othello's occupation's gone ! " How his passion lashes itself up and swells and rages like a tide ...
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... circumstances , moulding them to its previous bent and purposes ! For while Chaucer's inter- course with the busy world , and collision with the actual passions and conflicting interests of others , seemed to brace the sinews of his ...
... circumstances , moulding them to its previous bent and purposes ! For while Chaucer's inter- course with the busy world , and collision with the actual passions and conflicting interests of others , seemed to brace the sinews of his ...
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... circumstance , he is prolix from the number of points on which he touches , without being diffuse on any one ; and is sometimes tedi- ous from the fidelity with which he adheres to his subject , as other writers are from the frequency ...
... circumstance , he is prolix from the number of points on which he touches , without being diffuse on any one ; and is sometimes tedi- ous from the fidelity with which he adheres to his subject , as other writers are from the frequency ...
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... circumstance looks like a part of the instructions he had to follow , which he had no discretionary power to leave out or intro- duce at pleasure . He is contented to find grace and beauty in truth . He exhibits for the most part the ...
... circumstance looks like a part of the instructions he had to follow , which he had no discretionary power to leave out or intro- duce at pleasure . He is contented to find grace and beauty in truth . He exhibits for the most part the ...
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... circumstances . Chaucer's characters modernised , upon this principle of historic derivation , would be an useful addition to our knowledge of human nature . But who is there to undertake it ? The descriptions of the equipage , and ...
... circumstances . Chaucer's characters modernised , upon this principle of historic derivation , would be an useful addition to our knowledge of human nature . But who is there to undertake it ? The descriptions of the equipage , and ...
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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.