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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... poet in fact , when he first 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 ...
... poet in fact , when he first 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 ...
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... poet Are of imagination all compact . One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; The madman . While the lover , all as frantic , Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt . The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling , Doth glance from ...
... poet Are of imagination all compact . One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; The madman . While the lover , all as frantic , Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt . The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling , Doth glance from ...
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... poet , speaks of the auburn tresses of his mistress as locks of shining gold , because the least tinge of yellow in the hair has , from novelty and a sense of personal beauty , a more lustrous effect to the imagination than the purest ...
... poet , speaks of the auburn tresses of his mistress as locks of shining gold , because the least tinge of yellow in the hair has , from novelty and a sense of personal beauty , a more lustrous effect to the imagination than the purest ...
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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.