Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... heart holds with nature and itself . He who has a contempt for poetry , cannot have much respect for himself , or for any thing else . It is not a mere frivolous accomplishment , ( as some per- sons have been led to imagine ) the ...
... heart holds with nature and itself . He who has a contempt for poetry , cannot have much respect for himself , or for any thing else . It is not a mere frivolous accomplishment , ( as some per- sons have been led to imagine ) the ...
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... heart , and finding out the last remaining image of respect or attachment in the bottom of his breast , only to torture and kill it ! In like manner , the " So I am " of Cordelia gushes from her heart like a torrent of tears , relieving ...
... heart , and finding out the last remaining image of respect or attachment in the bottom of his breast , only to torture and kill it ! In like manner , the " So I am " of Cordelia gushes from her heart like a torrent of tears , relieving ...
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... heart , To be discarded thence ! " — One mode in which the dramatic exhibition of passion excites our sympathy without raising our disgust is , that in proportion as it sharpens the edge of calamity and disappointment , it strengthens ...
... heart , To be discarded thence ! " — One mode in which the dramatic exhibition of passion excites our sympathy without raising our disgust is , that in proportion as it sharpens the edge of calamity and disappointment , it strengthens ...
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... heart- strings ; loosens the pressure about them ; and calls the springs of thought and feeling into play with tenfold force . Impassioned poetry is an emanation of the moral and intellectual part of our nature , as well as of the ...
... heart- strings ; loosens the pressure about them ; and calls the springs of thought and feeling into play with tenfold force . Impassioned poetry is an emanation of the moral and intellectual part of our nature , as well as of the ...
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William Hazlitt. deepest workings of the heart , and rouses the whole man within us . The pleasure , however , derived from tragic poetry , is not any thing peculiar to it as poetry , as a fictitious and fanciful thing . It is not an ...
William Hazlitt. deepest workings of the heart , and rouses the whole man within us . The pleasure , however , derived from tragic poetry , is not any thing peculiar to it as poetry , as a fictitious and fanciful thing . It is not an ...
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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.