Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... 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 the universal language which the heart ...
... 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 the universal language which the heart ...
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... human life . When Lear says of Edgar , " Nothing but his unkind daughters could have brought him to this ; " what a bewildered amazement , what a wrench of the imagination , that cannot be brought to conceive of any other cause of ...
... human life . When Lear says of Edgar , " Nothing but his unkind daughters could have brought him to this ; " what a bewildered amazement , what a wrench of the imagination , that cannot be brought to conceive of any other cause of ...
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... by making us sensible of the magnitude of the loss . The storm of passion lays bare and shews us the rich depths of the human soul : the whole of our existence , the sum total of our passions and pursuits , of that ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... by making us sensible of the magnitude of the loss . The storm of passion lays bare and shews us the rich depths of the human soul : the whole of our existence , the sum total of our passions and pursuits , of that ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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... human life ; tugs at 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 ...
... human life ; tugs at 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 ...
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... human mind , though it is neither science nor philosophy . It cannot be concealed , however , that the progress of knowledge and re- finement has a tendency to circumscribe the limits of the imagination , and to clip the wings of poetry ...
... human mind , though it is neither science nor philosophy . It cannot be concealed , however , that the progress of knowledge and re- finement has a tendency to circumscribe the limits of the imagination , and to clip the wings of poetry ...
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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.