Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... empty cases in which the affairs of the world are packed , ' under the heads of intrigue or war , in different states , and from century to century : but there is no thought or feeling that can have entered into the 2 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... empty cases in which the affairs of the world are packed , ' under the heads of intrigue or war , in different states , and from century to century : but there is no thought or feeling that can have entered into the 2 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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... heads , who are to wipe all tears from his eyes ! The writer's genius , though not " dipped in dews of Castalie , " was baptised with the Holy Spirit and with fire . in this book are no small part of it . finement of Philoctetes in the ...
... heads , who are to wipe all tears from his eyes ! The writer's genius , though not " dipped in dews of Castalie , " was baptised with the Holy Spirit and with fire . in this book are no small part of it . finement of Philoctetes in the ...
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... head ; the fox peeps out of the ruined tower ; the thistle waves its beard to the wan- dering gale ; and the strings of his harp seem , as the hand of age , as the tale of other times , passes over them , to sigh and rustle like the dry ...
... head ; the fox peeps out of the ruined tower ; the thistle waves its beard to the wan- dering gale ; and the strings of his harp seem , as the hand of age , as the tale of other times , passes over them , to sigh and rustle like the dry ...
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... head she in her lap did soft dispose . Upon a bed of roses she was laid As faint through heat , or dight to pleasant sin ; * Taken from Tasso . + This word is an instance of those unwarrantable free- doms which Spenser sometimes took ...
... head she in her lap did soft dispose . Upon a bed of roses she was laid As faint through heat , or dight to pleasant sin ; * Taken from Tasso . + This word is an instance of those unwarrantable free- doms which Spenser sometimes took ...
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... head an ivy garland had , From under which fast trickled down the sweat : Still as he rode , he somewhat still did eat . And in his hand did bear a bouzing can , Of which he supt so oft , that on his seat His drunken corse he scarce ...
... head an ivy garland had , From under which fast trickled down the sweat : Still as he rode , he somewhat still did eat . And in his hand did bear a bouzing can , Of which he supt so oft , that on his seat His drunken corse he scarce ...
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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.