Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... story of Jack the Giant - killer ; the shepherd - boy is a poet , when he ` first crowns his mistress with a garland of flowers ; the countryman , when he stops to look at the rainbow ; the city - apprentice , when he gazes after the ...
... story of Jack the Giant - killer ; the shepherd - boy is a poet , when he ` first crowns his mistress with a garland of flowers ; the countryman , when he stops to look at the rainbow ; the city - apprentice , when he gazes after the ...
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... stories of ghosts and witches in plain prose : nor do the hawkers of full , true , and particular accounts of murders and executions about the streets , find it necessary to have them turned into penny ballads , before they can dispose ...
... stories of ghosts and witches in plain prose : nor do the hawkers of full , true , and particular accounts of murders and executions about the streets , find it necessary to have them turned into penny ballads , before they can dispose ...
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... story of his adventures would not make a poem like the Odyssey , it is true ; but the relator had the true genius of a poet . It has been made a question whether Richardson's romances are poetry ; and the answer perhaps is , that they ...
... story of his adventures would not make a poem like the Odyssey , it is true ; but the relator had the true genius of a poet . It has been made a question whether Richardson's romances are poetry ; and the answer perhaps is , that they ...
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... story of Ruth , again , is as if all the depth of natural affec- tion in the human race was involved in her breast . There are descriptions in the book of Job more prodigal of imagery , more intense in passion , than D any thing in ...
... story of Ruth , again , is as if all the depth of natural affec- tion in the human race was involved in her breast . There are descriptions in the book of Job more prodigal of imagery , more intense in passion , than D any thing in ...
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... story is composed of a number of fine links , closely connected together , and rivetted by a single blow . There is an instance of the minuteness which he introduces into his most serious descriptions in his account of Palamon when left ...
... story is composed of a number of fine links , closely connected together , and rivetted by a single blow . There is an instance of the minuteness which he introduces into his most serious descriptions in his account of Palamon when left ...
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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.