Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... lines of ten syllables , with like endings : but wherever there is a sense of beauty , or power , or harmony , as in the motion of a wave of the sea , in the growth of a flower that " spreads its sweet leaves to the air , and dedicates ...
... lines of ten syllables , with like endings : but wherever there is a sense of beauty , or power , or harmony , as in the motion of a wave of the sea , in the growth of a flower that " spreads its sweet leaves to the air , and dedicates ...
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... line , " But there where I had garner'd up my heart , To be discarded thence ! " — One mode in which the dramatic exhibition of passion excites our sympathy without raising our disgust is , that in proportion as it sharpens the edge of ...
... line , " But there where I had garner'd up my heart , To be discarded thence ! " — One mode in which the dramatic exhibition of passion excites our sympathy without raising our disgust is , that in proportion as it sharpens the edge of ...
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... line- Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers . " As there are certain sounds that excite certain movements , and the song and dance go together , so there are , no doubt , certain thoughts that lead to certain tones of voice ...
... line- Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers . " As there are certain sounds that excite certain movements , and the song and dance go together , so there are , no doubt , certain thoughts that lead to certain tones of voice ...
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... lines into each other . It is to supply the inherent defect of harmony in the customary mechanism of language , to make the sound an echo to the sense , when the sense becomes a sort of echo to itself - to mingle the tide of verse ...
... lines into each other . It is to supply the inherent defect of harmony in the customary mechanism of language , to make the sound an echo to the sense , when the sense becomes a sort of echo to itself - to mingle the tide of verse ...
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... lines of poetry are the well- known ones which tell the number of days in the months of the year . Thirty days hath September , " & c . But if the jingle of names assists the memory , may it not also quicken the fancy ? and there are ...
... lines of poetry are the well- known ones which tell the number of days in the months of the year . Thirty days hath September , " & c . But if the jingle of names assists the memory , may it not also quicken the fancy ? and there are ...
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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.