Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... interest in them , as we see them in a different point of view , nearer or at a greater dis- tance ( morally or physically speaking ) from no- velty , from old acquaintance , from our ignorance of them , from our fear of their ...
... interest in them , as we see them in a different point of view , nearer or at a greater dis- tance ( morally or physically speaking ) from no- velty , from old acquaintance , from our ignorance of them , from our fear of their ...
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... the progress of events but it is during the progress , in the interval of expectation and suspense , while our hopes and fears are strained to the highest pitch of breathless agony , that the pinch of the interest 20 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... the progress of events but it is during the progress , in the interval of expectation and suspense , while our hopes and fears are strained to the highest pitch of breathless agony , that the pinch of the interest 20 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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William Hazlitt. of breathless agony , that the pinch of the interest lies . " Between the acting of a dreadful thing ... interests us most . - But it may be asked then , Is there any thing better than Claude Lorraine's landscapes , than ...
William Hazlitt. of breathless agony , that the pinch of the interest lies . " Between the acting of a dreadful thing ... interests us most . - But it may be asked then , Is there any thing better than Claude Lorraine's landscapes , than ...
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... interest is worked up to an inconceivable height ; but it is by an infinite number of little things , by incessant labour and calls upon the attention , by a repetition of blows that have no rebound in them . The sympathy excited is not ...
... interest is worked up to an inconceivable height ; but it is by an infinite number of little things , by incessant labour and calls upon the attention , by a repetition of blows that have no rebound in them . The sympathy excited is not ...
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... interest , which moulds every object to its own purposes , and clothes all things with the passions and imaginations ... interest ; and he interests by exciting our sympathy with the emotion by which he is himself possessed . He does not ...
... interest , which moulds every object to its own purposes , and clothes all things with the passions and imaginations ... interest ; and he interests by exciting our sympathy with the emotion by which he is himself possessed . He does not ...
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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.