Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... thing else . It is not a mere frivolous accomplishment , ( as some per- sons have been led to imagine ) the trifling ... things , the empty cases in which the affairs of the world are packed , ' under the heads of intrigue or war , in ...
... thing else . It is not a mere frivolous accomplishment , ( as some per- sons have been led to imagine ) the trifling ... things , the empty cases in which the affairs of the world are packed , ' under the heads of intrigue or war , in ...
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... things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Such tricks hath strong imagination . " If poetry is a dream , the business of life is much the same . If it is a fiction ...
... things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Such tricks hath strong imagination . " If poetry is a dream , the business of life is much the same . If it is a fiction ...
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... thing . This was a chimera , how- ever , which never existed but in the brain of the inventor ; and Homer's poetical ... things according to our wishes and fancies , without poetry ; but poetry is the most emphatical language that can be ...
... thing . This was a chimera , how- ever , which never existed but in the brain of the inventor ; and Homer's poetical ... things according to our wishes and fancies , without poetry ; but poetry is the most emphatical language that can be ...
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... things to the desires of the soul , instead of subjecting the soul to external things , as reason and history do . " It is strictly the language of the imagination ; and the imagination is that faculty which represents 6 ON POETRY IN ...
... things to the desires of the soul , instead of subjecting the soul to external things , as reason and history do . " It is strictly the language of the imagination ; and the imagination is that faculty which represents 6 ON POETRY IN ...
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... thing like so large , but because the ex- cess of his size beyond what we are accustomed to expect , or the usual size of things of the same class , produces by contrast a greater feeling of magnitude and ponderous strength than another ...
... thing like so large , but because the ex- cess of his size beyond what we are accustomed to expect , or the usual size of things of the same class , produces by contrast a greater feeling of magnitude and ponderous strength than another ...
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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.