Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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William Hazlitt. CONTENTS . LECTURE I. INTRODUCTORY . - ON POETRY IN GENERAL Page 1 LECTURE II . ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . · 39 LECTURE III . ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON . . 86 ON DRYDEN AND POPE LECTURE IV . LECTURE V. ON THOMSON AND COWPER ...
William Hazlitt. CONTENTS . LECTURE I. INTRODUCTORY . - ON POETRY IN GENERAL Page 1 LECTURE II . ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . · 39 LECTURE III . ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON . . 86 ON DRYDEN AND POPE LECTURE IV . LECTURE V. ON THOMSON AND COWPER ...
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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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... poetry . Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself . He who has a contempt for poetry , cannot have much respect for himself , or for any thing else . It is not a mere frivolous accomplishment , ( as ...
... poetry . Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself . He who has a contempt for poetry , cannot have much respect for himself , or for any thing else . It is not a mere frivolous accomplishment , ( as ...
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... poetry , hatred is poetry ; contempt , jealousy , remorse , ad- miration , wonder , pity , despair , or madness , are all poetry . Poetry is that fine particle within us , that expands , rarefies , refines , raises our whole being ...
... poetry , hatred is poetry ; contempt , jealousy , remorse , ad- miration , wonder , pity , despair , or madness , are all poetry . Poetry is that fine particle within us , that expands , rarefies , refines , raises our whole being ...
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... poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Such tricks hath strong imagination . " If poetry is a dream , the business of life is much the same . If it is a fiction , made up of what we ...
... poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Such tricks hath strong imagination . " If poetry is a dream , the business of life is much the same . If it is a fiction , made up of what we ...
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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.