Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... give of poetry is , that it is the natural impression of any object or event , by its vividness exciting an ... gives birth , and afterwards of its connection with harmony of sound . B Poetry is the language of the imagination and the ...
... give of poetry is , that it is the natural impression of any object or event , by its vividness exciting an ... gives birth , and afterwards of its connection with harmony of sound . B Poetry is the language of the imagination and the ...
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... gives imme- diate pleasure or pain to the human mind . It comes home to the bosoms and businesses of men : for nothing but what so comes home to them in the most general and intelligible shape , can be a sub- ject for poetry . Poetry is ...
... gives imme- diate pleasure or pain to the human mind . It comes home to the bosoms and businesses of men : for nothing but what so comes home to them in the most general and intelligible shape , can be a sub- ject for poetry . Poetry is ...
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... gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Such tricks hath strong imagination . " If poetry is a dream , the business of life is much the same . If it is a fiction , made up of what we wish things to be , and fancy that they ...
... gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Such tricks hath strong imagination . " If poetry is a dream , the business of life is much the same . If it is a fiction , made up of what we wish things to be , and fancy that they ...
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... gives us a more intense aspiration after , and a more intimate participation with the antagonist world of good ; makes us drink deeper of the cup of human life ; tugs at the heart- strings ; loosens the pressure about them ; and calls ...
... gives us a more intense aspiration after , and a more intimate participation with the antagonist world of good ; makes us drink deeper of the cup of human life ; tugs at the heart- strings ; loosens the pressure about them ; and calls ...
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... gives an instant " satisfaction to the thought . " This is equally the origin of wit and 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 ...
... gives an instant " satisfaction to the thought . " This is equally the origin of wit and 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 ...
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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.