Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... image of kindred beauty or grandeur ; to enshrine itself , as it were , in the highest forms of fancy , and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner , and by the most striking examples of the same ...
... image of kindred beauty or grandeur ; to enshrine itself , as it were , in the highest forms of fancy , and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner , and by the most striking examples of the same ...
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... image which could do justice to the agonising sense of his wrongs and his despair ! Poetry is the high - wrought enthusiasm of fancy and feeling . As in describing natural ob- jects , it impregnates sensible impressions with the forms ...
... image which could do justice to the agonising sense of his wrongs and his despair ! Poetry is the high - wrought enthusiasm of fancy and feeling . As in describing natural ob- jects , it impregnates sensible impressions with the forms ...
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... 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 it of a weight of love and of supposed ...
... 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 it of a weight of love and of supposed ...
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... image and the words with the feeling we have , and of which we cannot get rid in any other way , that gives an instant " satisfaction to the thought . " This is equally the origin of wit and fancy , of comedy and tragedy , of the ...
... image and the words with the feeling we have , and of which we cannot get rid in any other way , that gives an instant " satisfaction to the thought . " This is equally the origin of wit and fancy , of comedy and tragedy , of the ...
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... image more distinctly , is not well founded . We may as- sume without much temerity , that poetry is more poetical than painting . When artists or connois- seurs talk on stilts about the poetry of painting , they shew that they know ...
... image more distinctly , is not well founded . We may as- sume without much temerity , that poetry is more poetical than painting . When artists or connois- seurs talk on stilts about the poetry of painting , they shew that they know ...
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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.