Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... picture brings the matter nearer to us . - It is not only the pro- gress of mechanical knowledge , but the necessary advances of civilization that are unfavourable to the spirit of poetry . We not only stand in less awe of the ...
... picture brings the matter nearer to us . - It is not only the pro- gress of mechanical knowledge , but the necessary advances of civilization that are unfavourable to the spirit of poetry . We not only stand in less awe of the ...
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... picture is painted , all is over . Faces are the best part of a picture ; but even faces are not what we chiefly remember in what interests us most . - But it may be asked then , Is there any thing better than Claude Lorraine's ...
... picture is painted , all is over . Faces are the best part of a picture ; but even faces are not what we chiefly remember in what interests us most . - But it may be asked then , Is there any thing better than Claude Lorraine's ...
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... picture of the Shining Ones within the gates , with wings at their backs and garlands on their heads , who are to wipe all tears from his eyes ! The writer's genius , though not " dipped in dews of Castalie , " was baptised with the ...
... picture of the Shining Ones within the gates , with wings at their backs and garlands on their heads , who are to wipe all tears from his eyes ! The writer's genius , though not " dipped in dews of Castalie , " was baptised with the ...
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... picture . There is , indeed , one gigantic one , that of Count Ugolino , of which Michael Angelo made a bas - relief , and which Sir Joshua Reynolds ought not to have painted . Another writer whom I shall mention last , and whom 36 ON ...
... picture . There is , indeed , one gigantic one , that of Count Ugolino , of which Michael Angelo made a bas - relief , and which Sir Joshua Reynolds ought not to have painted . Another writer whom I shall mention last , and whom 36 ON ...
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... picture of the sinking of the heart , of the wasting away of the body and mind , of the gradual failure of all the faculties under the con- tagion of a rankling sorrow , cannot be surpassed . Of the same kind is his farewel to his ...
... picture of the sinking of the heart , of the wasting away of the body and mind , of the gradual failure of all the faculties under the con- tagion of a rankling sorrow , cannot be surpassed . Of the same kind is his farewel to his ...
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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.