Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... readers or leisure hours - it has been the study and delight of mankind in all ages . Many people suppose that poetry is something to be found only in books , contained in lines of ten syllables , with like endings : but wherever there ...
... readers or leisure hours - it has been the study and delight of mankind in all ages . Many people suppose that poetry is something to be found only in books , contained in lines of ten syllables , with like endings : but wherever there ...
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... readers . Dante's only endeavour is to interest ; and he interests by exciting our sympathy with the emotion by which he is himself possessed . He does not place before us the objects by which that emotion has been created ; but he ...
... readers . Dante's only endeavour is to interest ; and he interests by exciting our sympathy with the emotion by which he is himself possessed . He does not place before us the objects by which that emotion has been created ; but he ...
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... reader . He affords few subjects for picture . There is , indeed , one gigantic one , that of Count Ugolino , of which Michael Angelo made a bas - relief , and which Sir Joshua Reynolds ought not to have painted . Another writer whom I ...
... reader . He affords few subjects for picture . There is , indeed , one gigantic one , that of Count Ugolino , of which Michael Angelo made a bas - relief , and which Sir Joshua Reynolds ought not to have painted . Another writer whom I ...
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... readers . As Homer is the first vigour and lustihed , Ossian is the decay and old age of poetry . He lives only in the recollection and re- gret of the past . There is one impression which he conveys more entirely than all other poets ...
... readers . As Homer is the first vigour and lustihed , Ossian is the decay and old age of poetry . He lives only in the recollection and re- gret of the past . There is one impression which he conveys more entirely than all other poets ...
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... reader's mind , but the power which his subject has over his own . The readers of Chaucer's poetry feel more nearly what the persons he describes must have felt , than perhaps those of any other poet . His sentiments are not voluntary ...
... reader's mind , but the power which his subject has over his own . The readers of Chaucer's poetry feel more nearly what the persons he describes must have felt , than perhaps those of any other poet . His sentiments are not voluntary ...
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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.