Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... death . But that chapter does not need a commentary ! It is for want of some such resting place for the imagination that the Greek statues are little else than specious forms . They are marble to the touch and to the heart ON POETRY IN ...
... death . But that chapter does not need a commentary ! It is for want of some such resting place for the imagination that the Greek statues are little else than specious forms . They are marble to the touch and to the heart ON POETRY IN ...
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... death , and broods over the silent air . He is the severest of all writers , the most hard and im- penetrable , the most opposite to the flowery and glittering ; who relies most on his own power , and the sense of it in others , and who ...
... death , and broods over the silent air . He is the severest of all writers , the most hard and im- penetrable , the most opposite to the flowery and glittering ; who relies most on his own power , and the sense of it in others , and who ...
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... come rushing in the greves , And breking bothe the boughes and the leves : " - or that still finer one of Constance , when she is condemned to death : - " Have ve not seen somtime a parace ( Among ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 43.
... come rushing in the greves , And breking bothe the boughes and the leves : " - or that still finer one of Constance , when she is condemned to death : - " Have ve not seen somtime a parace ( Among ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 43.
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... death still triumphed in his song . Chaucer has more of this deep , internal , sustained sentiment , than other writer , except Boccaccio . In depth of simple pathos , and inten- sity of conception , never swerving from his sub- ject ...
... death still triumphed in his song . Chaucer has more of this deep , internal , sustained sentiment , than other writer , except Boccaccio . In depth of simple pathos , and inten- sity of conception , never swerving from his sub- ject ...
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... death of Arcite is the more affecting , as it comes after triumph and victory , after the pomp of sacrifice , the solemnities of prayer , the celebra- tion of the gorgeous rites of chivalry . The de- scriptions of the three temples of ...
... death of Arcite is the more affecting , as it comes after triumph and victory , after the pomp of sacrifice , the solemnities of prayer , the celebra- tion of the gorgeous rites of chivalry . The de- scriptions of the three temples of ...
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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.