Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... respect for himself , or for any thing else . It is not a mere frivolous accomplishment , ( as some per- sons have been led to imagine ) the trifling amuse- ment of a few idle readers or leisure hours - it has been the study and delight ...
... respect for himself , or for any thing else . It is not a mere frivolous accomplishment , ( as some per- sons have been led to imagine ) the trifling amuse- ment of a few idle readers or leisure hours - it has been the study and delight ...
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... respect or attachment in the bottom of his breast , only to torture and kill it ! In like manner , the " So I am " of Cordelia gushes from her heart like a torrent of tears , relieving it of a weight of love and of supposed ingratitude ...
... respect or attachment in the bottom of his breast , only to torture and kill it ! In like manner , the " So I am " of Cordelia gushes from her heart like a torrent of tears , relieving it of a weight of love and of supposed ingratitude ...
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... respect . Spenser delighted in luxurious enjoyment ; Chaucer , in severe activity of mind . As Spenser was the most romantic and visionary , Chaucer was the most practical of all the great poets , the most a man of business and the ...
... respect . Spenser delighted in luxurious enjoyment ; Chaucer , in severe activity of mind . As Spenser was the most romantic and visionary , Chaucer was the most practical of all the great poets , the most a man of business and the ...
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... respect arises chiefly from the altera- tions which have since taken place in the pro- nunciation or mode of ... respects very admirable ) picture of Death on the Pale Horse , it is observed , that " In poetry the same effect 64 ON ...
... respect arises chiefly from the altera- tions which have since taken place in the pro- nunciation or mode of ... respects very admirable ) picture of Death on the Pale Horse , it is observed , that " In poetry the same effect 64 ON ...
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... respects , comparatively bar- barous . Those arts , which depend on individual genius and incommunicable power , have always leaped at once from infancy to manhood , from the first rude dawn of invention to their meridian height and ...
... respects , comparatively bar- barous . Those arts , which depend on individual genius and incommunicable power , have always leaped at once from infancy to manhood , from the first rude dawn of invention to their meridian height and ...
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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.