Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... person who has just trod upon a serpent with the still - life expres- sion of a common portrait , as the poet to describe the most striking and vivid impressions which things can be supposed to make upon the mind , in the language of ...
... person who has just trod upon a serpent with the still - life expres- sion of a common portrait , as the poet to describe the most striking and vivid impressions which things can be supposed to make upon the mind , in the language of ...
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... person who has seen some object of horror . The improbability of the events , the abruptness and monotony in the Inferno , are excessive but the interest never flags , from the continued earnestness of the author's mind . Dante's great ...
... person who has seen some object of horror . The improbability of the events , the abruptness and monotony in the Inferno , are excessive but the interest never flags , from the continued earnestness of the author's mind . Dante's great ...
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... persons and things that he had known and been intimately concerned in ; the same op- portunities , operating on a differently constituted frame , only served to alienate Spenser's mind the more from the " close - pent up " scenes of ...
... persons and things that he had known and been intimately concerned in ; the same op- portunities , operating on a differently constituted frame , only served to alienate Spenser's mind the more from the " close - pent up " scenes of ...
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... persons really concerned : yet as he never omits any material circumstance , he is prolix from the number of points on which he touches , without being diffuse on any one ; and is sometimes tedi- ous from the fidelity with which he ...
... persons really concerned : yet as he never omits any material circumstance , he is prolix from the number of points on which he touches , without being diffuse on any one ; and is sometimes tedi- ous from the fidelity with which he ...
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... persons he describes must have felt , than 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 ...
... persons he describes must have felt , than 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 ...
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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.