Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... heavens to avenge his cause , " for they are old like him , " there is nothing extravagant or im- pious in this sublime identification of his age with theirs ; for there is no other image which could do justice to the agonising sense of ...
... heavens to avenge his cause , " for they are old like him , " there is nothing extravagant or im- pious in this sublime identification of his age with theirs ; for there is no other image which could do justice to the agonising sense of ...
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... heaven than of hell . Oaths and nicknames are only a more vulgar sort of poetry or rhetoric . We are as fond of indulging our violent passions as of reading a description of those of others . We are our fears , as to as prone to make a ...
... heaven than of hell . Oaths and nicknames are only a more vulgar sort of poetry or rhetoric . We are as fond of indulging our violent passions as of reading a description of those of others . We are our fears , as to as prone to make a ...
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... heavens have gone farther off , and grown astronomical . They have become averse to the imagination , nor will they return to us on the squares of the distances , or on Doctor Chal- mers's Discourses . Rembrandt's picture brings the ...
... heavens have gone farther off , and grown astronomical . They have become averse to the imagination , nor will they return to us on the squares of the distances , or on Doctor Chal- mers's Discourses . Rembrandt's picture brings the ...
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... heaven and earth : it was this that let down , in the sight of the youthful patriarch , a golden ladder from the sky to the earth , with angels ascending and descend- ing upon it , and shed a light upon the lonely place , which can ...
... heaven and earth : it was this that let down , in the sight of the youthful patriarch , a golden ladder from the sky to the earth , with angels ascending and descend- ing upon it , and shed a light upon the lonely place , which can ...
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... Heaven , " claimed kindred only with what he saw from that height , and could raise to the same elevation with itself . He sat retired and kept his state alone , " playing with wisdom ; " while Shakspeare mingled with the crowd , and ...
... Heaven , " claimed kindred only with what he saw from that height , and could raise to the same elevation with itself . He sat retired and kept his state alone , " playing with wisdom ; " while Shakspeare mingled with the crowd , and ...
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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.