Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... sounds , expressing it . In treating of poetry , I shall speak first of the subject - matter of it , next of the forms of expres- sion to which it gives birth , and afterwards of its connection with harmony of sound . B Poetry is the ...
... sounds , expressing it . In treating of poetry , I shall speak first of the subject - matter of it , next of the forms of expres- sion to which it gives birth , and afterwards of its connection with harmony of sound . B Poetry is the ...
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... sounds that excite certain movements , and the song and dance go together , so there are , no doubt , certain thoughts that lead to certain tones of voice , or modulations of sound 22 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... sounds that excite certain movements , and the song and dance go together , so there are , no doubt , certain thoughts that lead to certain tones of voice , or modulations of sound 22 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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William Hazlitt. to certain tones of voice , or modulations of sound , and change " the words of Mercury into the songs of Apollo . " There is a striking instance of this adaptation of the movement of sound and rhythm to the subject , in ...
William Hazlitt. to certain tones of voice , or modulations of sound , and change " the words of Mercury into the songs of Apollo . " There is a striking instance of this adaptation of the movement of sound and rhythm to the subject , in ...
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... sounds that express it- this is poetry . The musical in sound is the sus- tained and continuous ; the musical in thought is the sustained and continuous also . There is a near connection between music and deep - rooted passion . Mad ...
... sounds that express it- this is poetry . The musical in sound is the sus- tained and continuous ; the musical in thought is the sustained and continuous also . There is a near connection between music and deep - rooted passion . Mad ...
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... sounds by which the voice utters these emotions of the soul , and blends syllables and lines into each other . It is to supply the inherent defect of harmony in the customary mechanism of language , to make the sound an echo to the ...
... sounds by which the voice utters these emotions of the soul , and blends syllables and lines into each other . It is to supply the inherent defect of harmony in the customary mechanism of language , to make the sound an echo to the ...
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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.