Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... sentiment , is as if it were given in upon evidence . Thus he describes Cressid's first avowal of her love . " And as the new abashed nightingale , That stinteth first when she beginneth sing , When that she heareth any herde's tale ...
... sentiment , is as if it were given in upon evidence . Thus he describes Cressid's first avowal of her love . " And as the new abashed nightingale , That stinteth first when she beginneth sing , When that she heareth any herde's tale ...
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... sentiments are not voluntary effusions of the poet's fancy , but founded on the natural impulses and habitual pre- judices of the characters he has to represent . There is an inveteracy of purpose , a sincerity of feeling , which never ...
... sentiments are not voluntary effusions of the poet's fancy , but founded on the natural impulses and habitual pre- judices of the characters he has to represent . There is an inveteracy of purpose , a sincerity of feeling , which never ...
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... sentiment . There is a mean- ing in what he sees ; and it is this which catches his eye by sympathy . Thus the costume and dress of the Canterbury Pilgrims of the Knight - the Squire the Oxford Scholar - the Gap- toothed 46 " ON CHAUCER ...
... sentiment . There is a mean- ing in what he sees ; and it is this which catches his eye by sympathy . Thus the costume and dress of the Canterbury Pilgrims of the Knight - the Squire the Oxford Scholar - the Gap- toothed 46 " ON CHAUCER ...
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... a fellow- feeling in the interest of the story ; and render back the sentiment of the speaker's mind . One of the finest parts of Chaucer is of this mixed kind . It is the beginning of the Flower and ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 53.
... a fellow- feeling in the interest of the story ; and render back the sentiment of the speaker's mind . One of the finest parts of Chaucer is of this mixed kind . It is the beginning of the Flower and ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 53.
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... sentiment , than other writer , except Boccaccio . In depth of simple pathos , and inten- sity of conception , never swerving from his sub- ject , I think no other writer comes near him , not even the Greek tragedians . I wish to be ...
... sentiment , than other writer , except Boccaccio . In depth of simple pathos , and inten- sity of conception , never swerving from his sub- ject , I think no other writer comes near him , not even the Greek tragedians . I wish to be ...
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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.