Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... common love of strong excitement . As Mr. Burke observes , people flock to see a tragedy ; but if there were a public exe- cution in the next street , the theatre would very soon be empty . It is not then the difference be- tween ...
... common love of strong excitement . As Mr. Burke observes , people flock to see a tragedy ; but if there were a public exe- cution in the next street , the theatre would very soon be empty . It is not then the difference be- tween ...
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... common sense and reason for the end and use of poetry , " both at the first and now , was and is to hold the mirror ... common portrait , as the poet to describe the most striking and vivid impressions which things can be supposed to ...
... common sense and reason for the end and use of poetry , " both at the first and now , was and is to hold the mirror ... common portrait , as the poet to describe the most striking and vivid impressions which things can be supposed to ...
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William Hazlitt. in the language of common conversation . Let who will strip nature of the colours and the shapes of fancy , the poet is not bound to do so ; the im- pressions of common sense and strong imagina- tion , that is , of ...
William Hazlitt. in the language of common conversation . Let who will strip nature of the colours and the shapes of fancy , the poet is not bound to do so ; the im- pressions of common sense and strong imagina- tion , that is , of ...
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... common humanity . They seem to have no sympathy with us , and not to want our admiration . Poetry in its matter and form is natural imagery or feeling , combined with passion and fancy . In its mode of conveyance , it combines the ...
... common humanity . They seem to have no sympathy with us , and not to want our admiration . Poetry in its matter and form is natural imagery or feeling , combined with passion and fancy . In its mode of conveyance , it combines the ...
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... sounds themselves , which are the voluntary signs of certain ideas , nor in their gram- matical arrangements in common speech , is there any principle of natural imitation , or correspond- ence to ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 23.
... sounds themselves , which are the voluntary signs of certain ideas , nor in their gram- matical arrangements in common speech , is there any principle of natural imitation , or correspond- ence to ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 23.
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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.