Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... force of comparison or contrast ; loses the sense of present suffering in the imaginary exaggeration of it ; exhausts the terror or pity by an unlimited indulgence of it ; grapples with impossibilities in its desperate im- patience of ...
... force of comparison or contrast ; loses the sense of present suffering in the imaginary exaggeration of it ; exhausts the terror or pity by an unlimited indulgence of it ; grapples with impossibilities in its desperate im- patience of ...
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... force . Impassioned poetry is an emanation of the moral and intellectual part of our nature , as well as of the sensitive - of the desire to know , the will to act , and the power to feel ; and ought to appeal to these different parts ...
... force . Impassioned poetry is an emanation of the moral and intellectual part of our nature , as well as of the sensitive - of the desire to know , the will to act , and the power to feel ; and ought to appeal to these different parts ...
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... force , and variety . His poetry is , like his religion , the poetry of number and form : he describes the bodies as well as the souls of men . The poetry of the Bible is that of imagination and of faith : it is abstract and disembodied ...
... force , and variety . His poetry is , like his religion , the poetry of number and form : he describes the bodies as well as the souls of men . The poetry of the Bible is that of imagination and of faith : it is abstract and disembodied ...
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... force of the character he im- His mind lends its own presses upon them . power to the objects which it contemplates , in- stead of borrowing it from them . He takes ad- vantage even of the nakedness and dreary vacuity of his subject ...
... force of the character he im- His mind lends its own presses upon them . power to the objects which it contemplates , in- stead of borrowing it from them . He takes ad- vantage even of the nakedness and dreary vacuity of his subject ...
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... force to his power of observation . The picturesque and the dramatic are in him closely blended together , and hardly distinguishable ; for he principally describes ex- ternal appearances as indicating character , as symbols of internal ...
... force to his power of observation . The picturesque and the dramatic are in him closely blended together , and hardly distinguishable ; for he principally describes ex- ternal appearances as indicating character , as symbols of internal ...
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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.