Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... learned education at one , or at both of the universities , and travelled early into Italy , where he became thoroughly imbued with the spirit and excellences of the great Italian poets and prose - 40 ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
... learned education at one , or at both of the universities , and travelled early into Italy , where he became thoroughly imbued with the spirit and excellences of the great Italian poets and prose - 40 ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
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William Hazlitt. Clerk of Oxenforde , who tells it , professes to have learned it from Petrarch . This story has gone all aver Europe , and has passed into a proverb . In spite of the barbarity of the circumstances , which are abominable ...
William Hazlitt. Clerk of Oxenforde , who tells it , professes to have learned it from Petrarch . This story has gone all aver Europe , and has passed into a proverb . In spite of the barbarity of the circumstances , which are abominable ...
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... learned had to love with secret looks ; And well could dance ; and sing with ruefulness ; And fortunes tell ; and read in loving books ; And thousand other ways to bait his fleshly hooks . Inconstant man that loved all he saw , And ...
... learned had to love with secret looks ; And well could dance ; and sing with ruefulness ; And fortunes tell ; and read in loving books ; And thousand other ways to bait his fleshly hooks . Inconstant man that loved all he saw , And ...
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... learned under twenty . The conciseness and felicity of the expression are equally remarkable . Thus in reasoning on the variety of men's opinion , he says- " Tis with our judgments , as our watches ; none Go just alike , yet each ...
... learned under twenty . The conciseness and felicity of the expression are equally remarkable . Thus in reasoning on the variety of men's opinion , he says- " Tis with our judgments , as our watches ; none Go just alike , yet each ...
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... learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards and found her there . I can- not say , he is every where alike ; were he so , I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind . He is ...
... learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards and found her there . I can- not say , he is every where alike ; were he so , I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind . He is ...
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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.