Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... plays at hide - and - seek , or repeats the story of Jack the Giant - killer ; the shepherd - boy is a poet , when he ` first crowns his mistress with a garland of flowers ; the countryman , when he stops to look at the rainbow ; the ...
... plays at hide - and - seek , or repeats the story of Jack the Giant - killer ; the shepherd - boy is a poet , when he ` first crowns his mistress with a garland of flowers ; the countryman , when he stops to look at the rainbow ; the ...
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... play with tenfold force . Impassioned poetry is an emanation of the moral and intellectual part of our nature , as well as of the sensitive - of the desire to know , the will to act , and the power to feel ; and ought to appeal to these ...
... play with tenfold force . Impassioned poetry is an emanation of the moral and intellectual part of our nature , as well as of the sensitive - of the desire to know , the will to act , and the power to feel ; and ought to appeal to these ...
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... plays in the allegory , to understand the beauty of the following stanza ? " And eke that stranger knight amongst the rest Was for like need enforc'd to disarray . Tho when as vailed was her lofty crest , Her golden locks that were in ...
... plays in the allegory , to understand the beauty of the following stanza ? " And eke that stranger knight amongst the rest Was for like need enforc'd to disarray . Tho when as vailed was her lofty crest , Her golden locks that were in ...
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... playing on the watery plain . " Or to take the Procession of the Passions that draw the coach of Pride , in which the figures of Idleness , of Gluttony , of Lechery , of Avarice , of Envy , and of Wrath speak , one should think , plain ...
... playing on the watery plain . " Or to take the Procession of the Passions that draw the coach of Pride , in which the figures of Idleness , of Gluttony , of Lechery , of Avarice , of Envy , and of Wrath speak , one should think , plain ...
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... play - fellows , " has even more of this high picturesque character . Nobody but Rubens could have painted the fancy of Spenser ; and he could not have given the sentiment , the airy dream that hovers over it ! With all this , Spenser ...
... play - fellows , " has even more of this high picturesque character . Nobody but Rubens could have painted the fancy of Spenser ; and he could not have given the sentiment , the airy dream that hovers over it ! With all this , 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.