Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... satire . January and May is not so good as some of the others . Chaucer's versification , con- sidering the time at which he wrote , and that ver- sification is a thing in a great degree mechanical , is not one of his least merits . It ...
... satire . January and May is not so good as some of the others . Chaucer's versification , con- sidering the time at which he wrote , and that ver- sification is a thing in a great degree mechanical , is not one of his least merits . It ...
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... Satires ; or in clothing the little with mock - dignity , as in his poems of Fancy ; or in adorning the trivial incidents and familiar relations of life with the utmost elegance of expression , and all the flattering illusions of ...
... Satires ; or in clothing the little with mock - dignity , as in his poems of Fancy ; or in adorning the trivial incidents and familiar relations of life with the utmost elegance of expression , and all the flattering illusions of ...
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... Satires : " Virtue may chuse the high or low degree , ' Tis just alike to virtue , and to me ; Dwell in a monk , or light upon a king , She's still the same belov'd , contented thing . Vice is undone if she forgets her birth , And ...
... Satires : " Virtue may chuse the high or low degree , ' Tis just alike to virtue , and to me ; Dwell in a monk , or light upon a king , She's still the same belov'd , contented thing . Vice is undone if she forgets her birth , And ...
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... Satires are not in general so good as his Epistles . His enmity is effeminate and petulant from a sense of weakness , as his friendship was tender from a sense of gratitude . I do not like , for instance , his character of Chartres , or ...
... Satires are not in general so good as his Epistles . His enmity is effeminate and petulant from a sense of weakness , as his friendship was tender from a sense of gratitude . I do not like , for instance , his character of Chartres , or ...
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... satire in Pope ( perhaps in the world ) is his character of Addison ; and this , it may be observed , is of a mixed kind , made up of his respect for the man , and a cutting sense of his failings . The other finest one is that of ...
... satire in Pope ( perhaps in the world ) is his character of Addison ; and this , it may be observed , is of a mixed kind , made up of his respect for the man , and a cutting sense of his failings . The other finest one is that of ...
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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.