Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... 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 language of the imagination and the passions THE A C ...
... 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 language of the imagination and the passions THE A C ...
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... speaking ) from no- velty , from old acquaintance , from our ignorance of them , from our fear of their consequences , from contrast , from unexpected likeness . We can no more take away the faculty of the imagination , than we can see ...
... speaking ) from no- velty , from old acquaintance , from our ignorance of them , from our fear of their consequences , from contrast , from unexpected likeness . We can no more take away the faculty of the imagination , than we can see ...
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... speak for themselves . To take one or two of these at ran- dom : " There was also a nonne , a Prioresse , That of hire smiling was ful simple and coy ; Hire gretest othe n'as but by seint Eloy : And she was cleped Madame Eglentine . Ful ...
... speak for themselves . To take one or two of these at ran- dom : " There was also a nonne , a Prioresse , That of hire smiling was ful simple and coy ; Hire gretest othe n'as but by seint Eloy : And she was cleped Madame Eglentine . Ful ...
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... speak , one should think , plain enough for themselves ; such as this of Gluttony : " And by his side rode loathsome Gluttony , Deformed creature , on a filthy swine ; His belly was up blown with luxury ; And eke with fatness swollen ...
... speak , one should think , plain enough for themselves ; such as this of Gluttony : " And by his side rode loathsome Gluttony , Deformed creature , on a filthy swine ; His belly was up blown with luxury ; And eke with fatness swollen ...
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... speak , and feel , and act , as he makes them . He had only to think of any thing in order to become that thing , with all the circumstances belonging to it . When he conceived of a character , whether real or imaginary , he not only ...
... speak , and feel , and act , as he makes them . He had only to think of any thing in order to become that thing , with all the circumstances belonging to it . When he conceived of a character , whether real or imaginary , he not only ...
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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.