Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... seem that the argument which has been sometimes set up , that painting must affect the imagination more strongly , because it represents the image more distinctly , is not well founded . We may as- sume without much temerity , that ...
... seem that the argument which has been sometimes set up , that painting must affect the imagination more strongly , because it represents the image more distinctly , is not well founded . We may as- sume without much temerity , that ...
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... seem to have no sympathy with us , and not to want our admiration . Poetry in its matter and form is natural imagery or feeling , combined with passion and fancy . In its mode of conveyance , it combines the ordinary use of language ...
... seem to have no sympathy with us , and not to want our admiration . Poetry in its matter and form is natural imagery or feeling , combined with passion and fancy . In its mode of conveyance , it combines the ordinary use of language ...
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... seem to have no principle of modulation left in their writings . An excuse might be made for rhyme in the same manner . It is but fair that the ear should linger on the sounds that delight it , or avail itself of the same brilliant ...
... seem to have no principle of modulation left in their writings . An excuse might be made for rhyme in the same manner . It is but fair that the ear should linger on the sounds that delight it , or avail itself of the same brilliant ...
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... seems alone in the world , with the original forms of nature , the rocks , the earth , and the sky . It is not the poetry of action or heroic enterprise , but of faith in a supreme Providence , and resignation to the power that governs ...
... seems alone in the world , with the original forms of nature , the rocks , the earth , and the sky . It is not the poetry of action or heroic enterprise , but of faith in a supreme Providence , and resignation to the power that governs ...
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... seems to have been indebted to the Bible for the gloomy tone of his mind , as well as for the prophetic fury which exalts and kindles his poetry ; but he is utterly unlike Homer . His genius is not a sparkling flame , but the sullen ...
... seems to have been indebted to the Bible for the gloomy tone of his mind , as well as for the prophetic fury which exalts and kindles his poetry ; but he is utterly unlike Homer . His genius is not a sparkling flame , but the sullen ...
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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.