Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... finest comments that ever were made on the Scriptures . Would their effect be the same if we were not acquainted with the text ? But the New Testament existed before the cartoons . There is one subject of which there is no cartoon ...
... finest comments that ever were made on the Scriptures . Would their effect be the same if we were not acquainted with the text ? But the New Testament existed before the cartoons . There is one subject of which there is no cartoon ...
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... finest of all . If it were indeed possible to shew that this writer was nothing , it would only be another in- stance of mutability , another blank made , another void left in the heart , another confirmation of that ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... finest of all . If it were indeed possible to shew that this writer was nothing , it would only be another in- stance of mutability , another blank made , another void left in the heart , another confirmation of that ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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... finest of the lond . And for to fasten his hood under his chinne , He had of gold ywrought a curious pinne : A love - knotte in the greter end ther was . His hed was balled , and shone as any glas , And eke his face , as it hadde ben ...
... finest of the lond . And for to fasten his hood under his chinne , He had of gold ywrought a curious pinne : A love - knotte in the greter end ther was . His hed was balled , and shone as any glas , And eke his face , as it hadde ben ...
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... have a fellow- feeling in the interest of the story ; and render back the sentiment of the speaker's mind . One of the finest parts of Chaucer is of this mixed kind . It is the beginning of the Flower and ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 53.
... have a fellow- feeling in the interest of the story ; and render back the sentiment of the speaker's mind . One of the finest parts of Chaucer is of this mixed kind . It is the beginning of the Flower and ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 53.
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... finest things in Spenser are , the character of Una , in the first book ; the House of Pride ; the Cave of Mammon , and the Cave of Despair ; the account of Memory , of whom it is said , among other things , " The wars he well remember ...
... finest things in Spenser are , the character of Una , in the first book ; the House of Pride ; the Cave of Mammon , and the Cave of Despair ; the account of Memory , of whom it is said , among other things , " The wars he well remember ...
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admirable affectation allegory appear Ballads beauty Beggar's Opera blank verse Boccaccio Burns character Chaucer common Cutty Sark death delight describes doth Dryden equal excellence face Faery Queen fame fancy feeling finest flowers genius give Gonne grace Gulliver's Travels happy hates hath heart heaven hire Homer human idea images imagination interest kind Knight's Tale labour language less light lines living look Lord Lord Byron Lyrical Ballads manners Milton mind moral Muse nature never o'er objects painted passion pathos person pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise prose racter reader rhyme satire sense sentiment Shakspeare shew song soul sound Spenser spirit spring story style sweet Tam o'Shanter ther thing thou thought tion Titian tree truth verse Whan wings wolde words Wordsworth writer wyllowe-tree youth
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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.