Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... present suffering in the imaginary exaggeration of it ; exhausts the terror or pity by an unlimited indulgence of it ; grapples with impossibilities in its desperate im- patience of restraint ; throws us back upon the past , forward ...
... present suffering in the imaginary exaggeration of it ; exhausts the terror or pity by an unlimited indulgence of it ; grapples with impossibilities in its desperate im- patience of restraint ; throws us back upon the past , forward ...
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... presents , and that not the least interesting ; so poetry is one part of the history of the human mind , though it is neither science nor philosophy . It cannot be concealed , however , that the progress of knowledge and re- finement ...
... presents , and that not the least interesting ; so poetry is one part of the history of the human mind , though it is neither science nor philosophy . It cannot be concealed , however , that the progress of knowledge and re- finement ...
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... present we are less exposed to the vicissitudes of good or evil , to the incursions of wild beasts or " bandit fierce , " or to the unmitigated fury of the elements . The time has been that " our fell of hair would at a dismal treatise ...
... present we are less exposed to the vicissitudes of good or evil , to the incursions of wild beasts or " bandit fierce , " or to the unmitigated fury of the elements . The time has been that " our fell of hair would at a dismal treatise ...
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... present to every thing : " If we fly into the uttermost parts of the earth , it is there also ; if we turn to the east or the west , we cannot escape from it . " Man is thus aggrandised in the image of his Maker . The history of the ...
... present to every thing : " If we fly into the uttermost parts of the earth , it is there also ; if we turn to the east or the west , we cannot escape from it . " Man is thus aggrandised in the image of his Maker . The history of the ...
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... presents to the mind are not much in themselves , they want grandeur , beauty , and order ; but they become every thing by the force of the character he im- His mind lends its own presses upon them . power to the objects which it ...
... presents to the mind are not much in themselves , they want grandeur , beauty , and order ; but they become every thing by the force of the character he im- His mind lends its own presses upon them . power to the objects which it ...
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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.