Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... expressing it . In treating of poetry , I shall speak first of the subject - matter of it , next of the forms of expres- sion to which it gives birth , and afterwards of its connection with harmony of sound . B Poetry is the language of ...
... expressing it . In treating of poetry , I shall speak first of the subject - matter of it , next of the forms of expres- sion to which it gives birth , and afterwards of its connection with harmony of sound . B Poetry is the language of ...
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... expressing it in the boldest manner , and by the most striking examples of the same quality in other instances . Poetry , according to Lord Bacon , for this reason , " has something divine in it , because it raises the mind and hurries ...
... expressing it in the boldest manner , and by the most striking examples of the same quality in other instances . Poetry , according to Lord Bacon , for this reason , " has something divine in it , because it raises the mind and hurries ...
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... with it to the utmost . Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion , the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our con- ception of any thing , whether pleasurable or pain- ful 14 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... with it to the utmost . Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion , the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our con- ception of any thing , whether pleasurable or pain- ful 14 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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... , and is enriched and adorned with phrases borrowed from the different languages of Europe , both ancient and modern . He was , pro- bably , seduced into a certain license of expression by ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 83.
... , and is enriched and adorned with phrases borrowed from the different languages of Europe , both ancient and modern . He was , pro- bably , seduced into a certain license of expression by ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 83.
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... expression , and to the occasional faults to which it led , for a poetical language rich and varied and magnificent beyond all former , and almost all later example . His versification is , at once , the most smooth and the most ...
... expression , and to the occasional faults to which it led , for a poetical language rich and varied and magnificent beyond all former , and almost all later example . His versification is , at once , the most smooth and the most ...
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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.