Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... perhaps is , that they are not poetry , because they are not romance . The interest is worked up to an inconceivable height ; but it is by an infinite number of little things , by incessant labour and calls upon the attention , by a ...
... perhaps is , that they are not poetry , because they are not romance . The interest is worked up to an inconceivable height ; but it is by an infinite number of little things , by incessant labour and calls upon the attention , by a ...
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... perhaps , tends to heighten the effect by the bold intermixture of realities , and by an appeal , as it were , to the indivi- dual knowledge and experience of the reader . He affords few subjects for picture . There is , indeed , one ...
... perhaps , tends to heighten the effect by the bold intermixture of realities , and by an appeal , as it were , to the indivi- dual knowledge and experience of the reader . He affords few subjects for picture . There is , indeed , one ...
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... perhaps those of any other poet . His sentiments are not voluntary effusions of the poet's fancy , but founded on the natural impulses and habitual pre- judices of the characters he has to represent . There is an inveteracy of purpose ...
... perhaps those of any other poet . His sentiments are not voluntary effusions of the poet's fancy , but founded on the natural impulses and habitual pre- judices of the characters he has to represent . There is an inveteracy of purpose ...
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... be found in nature , ) and was exclusively taken up with what he set about , whether it was jest or earnest . The Wife of Bath's Prologue ( which Pope has very admirably modernised ) is , perhaps , unequal- led ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 63.
... be found in nature , ) and was exclusively taken up with what he set about , whether it was jest or earnest . The Wife of Bath's Prologue ( which Pope has very admirably modernised ) is , perhaps , unequal- led ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 63.
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William Hazlitt. very admirably modernised ) is , perhaps , unequal- led as a comic story . The Cock and the Fox is also excellent for lively strokes of character and satire . January and May is not so good as some of the others ...
William Hazlitt. very admirably modernised ) is , perhaps , unequal- led as a comic story . The Cock and the Fox is also excellent for lively strokes of character and satire . January and May is not so good as some of the others ...
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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.