Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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William Hazlitt. ception of any thing , whether pleasurable or pain- ful , mean or dignified , delightful or distressing . It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have , and of which we cannot get rid ...
William Hazlitt. ception of any thing , whether pleasurable or pain- ful , mean or dignified , delightful or distressing . It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have , and of which we cannot get rid ...
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... means of literal truth or abstract rea- son . The painter of history might as well be re- quired to represent the face of a person who has just trod upon a serpent with the still - life expres- sion of a common portrait , as the poet to ...
... means of literal truth or abstract rea- son . The painter of history might as well be re- quired to represent the face of a person who has just trod upon a serpent with the still - life expres- sion of a common portrait , as the poet to ...
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... mean to give any preference , but it should seem that the argument which has been sometimes set up , that painting must affect the imagination more strongly , because it represents the image more distinctly , is not well founded . We ...
... mean to give any preference , but it should seem that the argument which has been sometimes set up , that painting must affect the imagination more strongly , because it represents the image more distinctly , is not well founded . We ...
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... mean- ing in what he sees ; and it is this which catches his eye by sympathy . Thus the costume and dress of the Canterbury Pilgrims of the Knight - the Squire the Oxford Scholar - the Gap- toothed 46 " ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
... mean- ing in what he sees ; and it is this which catches his eye by sympathy . Thus the costume and dress of the Canterbury Pilgrims of the Knight - the Squire the Oxford Scholar - the Gap- toothed 46 " ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
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... mean . I will take the following from the Knight's Tale . The distress of Arcite , in consequence of his banishment from his love , is thus described : " Whan that Arcite to Thebes comen was , Ful oft a day he swelt and said Alas , For ...
... mean . I will take the following from the Knight's Tale . The distress of Arcite , in consequence of his banishment from his love , is thus described : " Whan that Arcite to Thebes comen was , Ful oft a day he swelt and said Alas , For ...
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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.