Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... excellence they appear sufficient to themselves . By their beauty they are raised above the frailties of passion or suffering . By their beauty they are deified . But they are not objects of religious faith to us , and their forms are a ...
... excellence they appear sufficient to themselves . By their beauty they are raised above the frailties of passion or suffering . By their beauty they are deified . But they are not objects of religious faith to us , and their forms are a ...
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... excellence , or what might be termed gusto . They have a local truth and freshness , which gives the very feeling of the air , the coolness or moisture of the ground . Inanimate objects are thus made to have a fellow- feeling in the ...
... excellence , or what might be termed gusto . They have a local truth and freshness , which gives the very feeling of the air , the coolness or moisture of the ground . Inanimate objects are thus made to have a fellow- feeling in the ...
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... excellence more than another . He was just like any other but that he was like all other men . He was the least of an egotist that it was possible to be . He was nothing in himself ; but he was all that others were , or that they could ...
... excellence more than another . He was just like any other but that he was like all other men . He was the least of an egotist that it was possible to be . He was nothing in himself ; but he was all that others were , or that they could ...
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... excellence , of sullen intricacy , crabbed and perplexed , or of the smoothest and loftiest expansion - from the ease and familiarity of mea- sured conversation to the lyrical sounds Of ditties highly penned , Sung by a fair queen in a ...
... excellence , of sullen intricacy , crabbed and perplexed , or of the smoothest and loftiest expansion - from the ease and familiarity of mea- sured conversation to the lyrical sounds Of ditties highly penned , Sung by a fair queen in a ...
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... excellence constantly in view to stimulate his efforts , and by all that appears , no love of fame . He wrote for the " great vulgar and the small , " in his time , not for posterity . If Queen Elizabeth and the maids of honour laughed ...
... excellence constantly in view to stimulate his efforts , and by all that appears , no love of fame . He wrote for the " great vulgar and the small , " in his time , not for posterity . If Queen Elizabeth and the maids of honour laughed ...
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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.