Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... up of what we wish things to be , and fancy that they are , because we wish them so , there is no other nor better reality . Ariosto has described the loves of Angelica and Medoro : but was not Medoro , who ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... up of what we wish things to be , and fancy that they are , because we wish them so , there is no other nor better reality . Ariosto has described the loves of Angelica and Medoro : but was not Medoro , who ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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... fancy , and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by 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 ...
... fancy , and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by 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 ...
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... agonising sense of his wrongs and his despair ! Poetry is the high - wrought enthusiasm of fancy and feeling . As in describing natural ob- jects , it impregnates sensible impressions with the forms of 8 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... agonising sense of his wrongs and his despair ! Poetry is the high - wrought enthusiasm of fancy and feeling . As in describing natural ob- jects , it impregnates sensible impressions with the forms of 8 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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William Hazlitt. jects , it impregnates sensible impressions with the forms of fancy , so it describes the feelings of pleasure or pain , by blending them with the strongest movements of passion , and the most striking forms of nature ...
William Hazlitt. jects , it impregnates sensible impressions with the forms of fancy , so it describes the feelings of pleasure or pain , by blending them with the strongest movements of passion , and the most striking forms of nature ...
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... fancy , of comedy and tragedy , of the sublime and pathetic . When Pope says of the Lord Mayor's shew , — " Now night descending , the proud scene is o'er , But lives in Settle's numbers one day more ! " -when Collins makes Danger ...
... fancy , of comedy and tragedy , of the sublime and pathetic . When Pope says of the Lord Mayor's shew , — " Now night descending , the proud scene is o'er , But lives in Settle's numbers one day more ! " -when Collins makes Danger ...
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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.