Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... kind , and generally fit to become so in name , by being " married to immortal verse . " If it is of the essence of poetry to strike and fix the imagination , whether we will or no , to make the eye of child- hood glisten with the ...
... kind , and generally fit to become so in name , by being " married to immortal verse . " If it is of the essence of poetry to strike and fix the imagination , whether we will or no , to make the eye of child- hood glisten with the ...
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... kind ; they are founders of a chosen race of people , the inheritors of the earth ; they exist in the generations which are to come after them . Their poetry , like their religious creed , is vast , un- formed , obscure , and infinite ...
... kind ; they are founders of a chosen race of people , the inheritors of the earth ; they exist in the generations which are to come after them . Their poetry , like their religious creed , is vast , un- formed , obscure , and infinite ...
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... , was wide , and houses fer asonder ; " the Miller , and the Reve , " a slendre colerike man , " are all of the same stamp . They are every one samples E of a kind ; abstract definitions of a species . ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 49.
... , was wide , and houses fer asonder ; " the Miller , and the Reve , " a slendre colerike man , " are all of the same stamp . They are every one samples E of a kind ; abstract definitions of a species . ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 49.
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William Hazlitt. of a kind ; abstract definitions of a species . Chaucer , it has been said , numbered the classes of men , as Linnæus numbered the plants . main to this day : others that Most of them re- are obsolete , and may well be ...
William Hazlitt. of a kind ; abstract definitions of a species . Chaucer , it has been said , numbered the classes of men , as Linnæus numbered the plants . main to this day : others that Most of them re- are obsolete , and may well be ...
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... feeling in the interest of the story ; and render back the sentiment of the speaker's mind . One of the finest parts of Chaucer is of this mixed kind . It is the beginning of the Flower and ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 53.
... feeling in the interest of the story ; and render back the sentiment of the speaker's mind . One of the finest parts of Chaucer is of this mixed kind . It is the beginning of the Flower and ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 53.
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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.