Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... night imagining some fear , How easy is each bush suppos'd a bear ! " When Iachimo says of Imogen , " " -The flame o ' th ' taper Bows toward her , and would under - peep her lids To see the enclosed lights " — This is this passionate ...
... night imagining some fear , How easy is each bush suppos'd a bear ! " When Iachimo says of Imogen , " " -The flame o ' th ' taper Bows toward her , and would under - peep her lids To see the enclosed lights " — This is this passionate ...
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... night descending , the proud scene is o'er , But lives in Settle's numbers one day more ! " -when Collins makes Danger , " with limbs of giant mould , " " Throw him on the steep Of some loose hanging rock asleep : " when Lear calls out ...
... night descending , the proud scene is o'er , But lives in Settle's numbers one day more ! " -when Collins makes Danger , " with limbs of giant mould , " " Throw him on the steep Of some loose hanging rock asleep : " when Lear calls out ...
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... night before his death . But that chapter does not need a commentary ! It is for want of some such resting place for the imagination that the Greek statues are little else than specious forms . They are marble to the touch and to the ...
... night before his death . But that chapter does not need a commentary ! It is for want of some such resting place for the imagination that the Greek statues are little else than specious forms . They are marble to the touch and to the ...
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... night . The metaphors in the Old Testament are more boldly figurative . Things were collected more into masses , and gave a greater momentum to the imagination . Dante was the father of modern poetry , and he may therefore claim a place ...
... night . The metaphors in the Old Testament are more boldly figurative . Things were collected more into masses , and gave a greater momentum to the imagination . Dante was the father of modern poetry , and he may therefore claim a place ...
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... night , making his mone . And if he herde song or instrument , Than wold he wepe , he might not be stent . So feble were his spirites , and so low , And changed so , that no man coude know His speche ne his vois , though men it herd ...
... night , making his mone . And if he herde song or instrument , Than wold he wepe , he might not be stent . So feble were his spirites , and so low , And changed so , that no man coude know His speche ne his vois , though men it herd ...
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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.