Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... contend 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 .
... contend 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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... given some ac- count of the nature of poetry in general , I shall proceed , in the next place , to a more particular consideration of the genius and history of English poetry . I shall take , as the subject of the present lecture ...
... given some ac- count of the nature of poetry in general , I shall proceed , in the next place , to a more particular consideration of the genius and history of English poetry . I shall take , as the subject of the present lecture ...
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... given in upon evidence . Thus he describes Cressid's first avowal of her love . " And as the new abashed nightingale , That stinteth first when she beginneth sing , When that she heareth any herde's tale , Or in the hedges any wight ...
... given in upon evidence . Thus he describes Cressid's first avowal of her love . " And as the new abashed nightingale , That stinteth first when she beginneth sing , When that she heareth any herde's tale , Or in the hedges any wight ...
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... given to the offerings of the lovers , have a beauty and grandeur , much of which is lost in Dryden's version . For instance , such lines as the following are not rendered with their true feeling . Why shulde I not as well eke tell you ...
... given to the offerings of the lovers , have a beauty and grandeur , much of which is lost in Dryden's version . For instance , such lines as the following are not rendered with their true feeling . Why shulde I not as well eke tell you ...
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... given of the character is in- imitable : Nought fer fro thilke paleis honourable , Wher as this markis shope his mariage , Ther stood a thorpe , of sighte delitable , In which that poure folk of that village Hadden hir bestes and her ...
... given of the character is in- imitable : Nought fer fro thilke paleis honourable , Wher as this markis shope his mariage , Ther stood a thorpe , of sighte delitable , In which that poure folk of that village Hadden hir bestes and her ...
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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.