Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... COWPER . · 135 • 168 · 206 LECTURE VI . ON SWIFT , YOUNG , GRAY , COLLINS , & c . LECTURE VII . ON BURNS , AND THE OLD ENGLISH BALLADS LECTURE VIII . ON THE LIVING POETS • · 245 • 283 BIBL TA LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH POETS . LECTURE 1.
... COWPER . · 135 • 168 · 206 LECTURE VI . ON SWIFT , YOUNG , GRAY , COLLINS , & c . LECTURE VII . ON BURNS , AND THE OLD ENGLISH BALLADS LECTURE VIII . ON THE LIVING POETS • · 245 • 283 BIBL TA LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH POETS . LECTURE 1.
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William Hazlitt. BIBL TA LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH POETS . LECTURE 1. - INTRODUCTORY . ON POETRY IN GENERAL . THE best general notion which I can give of poetry is , that it is the natural impression of any object or event , by its ...
William Hazlitt. BIBL TA LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH POETS . LECTURE 1. - INTRODUCTORY . ON POETRY IN GENERAL . THE best general notion which I can give of poetry is , that it is the natural impression of any object or event , by its ...
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... poets from his Commonwealth , lest their descriptions of the natural man should spoil his mathematical man , who was to be without passions and affections , who was neither to laugh nor weep , to feel sorrow nor anger , to be cast down ...
... poets from his Commonwealth , lest their descriptions of the natural man should spoil his mathematical man , who was to be without passions and affections , who was neither to laugh nor weep , to feel sorrow nor anger , to be cast down ...
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... make the eye of child- hood glisten with the starting tear , to be never thought of afterwards with indifference , John Bunyan and Daniel Defoe may be permitted to The prints If the con- pass for poets in their ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 27.
... make the eye of child- hood glisten with the starting tear , to be never thought of afterwards with indifference , John Bunyan and Daniel Defoe may be permitted to The prints If the con- pass for poets in their ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 27.
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... poem like the Odyssey , it is true ; but the relator had the true genius of a poet . It has been made a question whether Richardson's romances are poetry ; and the answer perhaps is , that they are not poetry , because they are not ...
... poem like the Odyssey , it is true ; but the relator had the true genius of a poet . It has been made a question whether Richardson's romances are poetry ; and the answer perhaps is , that they are not poetry , because they are not ...
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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.