Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... pathos , by all the force of comparison or contrast ; loses the sense of present suffering in the imaginary exaggeration of it ; exhausts the terror or pity by an unlimited indulgence of it ; grapples with impossibilities in its ...
... pathos , by all the force of comparison or contrast ; loses the sense of present suffering in the imaginary exaggeration of it ; exhausts the terror or pity by an unlimited indulgence of it ; grapples with impossibilities in its ...
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... pathos here does not seem to be of the poet's seeking , but a part of the necessary texture of the fable . He speaks of what he wishes to describe with the accuracy , the discrimination of one who relates what has happened to himself ...
... pathos here does not seem to be of the poet's seeking , but a part of the necessary texture of the fable . He speaks of what he wishes to describe with the accuracy , the discrimination of one who relates what has happened to himself ...
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... pathos , and inten- sity of conception , never swerving from his sub- ject , I think no other writer comes near him , not even the Greek tragedians . I wish to be allowed to give one or two instances of what I mean . I will take the ...
... pathos , and inten- sity of conception , never swerving from his sub- ject , I think no other writer comes near him , not even the Greek tragedians . I wish to be allowed to give one or two instances of what I mean . I will take the ...
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... pathos , and languid brilliancy of fancy , in which this writer excelled : " The whiles some one did chaunt this lovely lay ; Ah ! see , whoso fayre thing dost fain to see , In springing flower the image of thy day ! Ah ! see the virgin ...
... pathos , and languid brilliancy of fancy , in which this writer excelled : " The whiles some one did chaunt this lovely lay ; Ah ! see , whoso fayre thing dost fain to see , In springing flower the image of thy day ! Ah ! see the virgin ...
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... help of his fayre horns on hight . " But he has been un- justly charged with a want of passion and of strength . He has both in an immense degree . He has not indeed the pathos of immediate action or 80 ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
... help of his fayre horns on hight . " But he has been un- justly charged with a want of passion and of strength . He has both in an immense degree . He has not indeed the pathos of immediate action or 80 ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
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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.