Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... tion will distort or magnify the object , and con- vert it into the likeness of whatever is most proper to encourage the fear . " Our eyes are made the fools " of our other faculties . the universal law of the imagination , " That if it ...
... tion will distort or magnify the object , and con- vert it into the likeness of whatever is most proper to encourage the fear . " Our eyes are made the fools " of our other faculties . the universal law of the imagination , " That if it ...
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... tion , delight , or love . When Lear calls upon the heavens to avenge his cause , " for they are old like him , " there is nothing extravagant or im- pious in this sublime identification of his age with theirs ; for there is no other ...
... tion , delight , or love . When Lear calls upon the heavens to avenge his cause , " for they are old like him , " there is nothing extravagant or im- pious in this sublime identification of his age with theirs ; for there is no other ...
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... tion ; to make it a bugbear to ourselves , to point it out to others in all the splendour of deformity , to embody it to the senses , to stigmatise it by name , to grapple with it in thought , in action , to sharpen our intellect , to ...
... tion ; to make it a bugbear to ourselves , to point it out to others in all the splendour of deformity , to embody it to the senses , to stigmatise it by name , to grapple with it in thought , in action , to sharpen our intellect , to ...
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... tion , that is , of passion and indifference , cannot be the same , and they must have a separate language to do justice to either . Objects must strike dif- ferently upon the mind , independently of what they are in themselves , as ...
... tion , that is , of passion and indifference , cannot be the same , and they must have a separate language to do justice to either . Objects must strike dif- ferently upon the mind , independently of what they are in themselves , as ...
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... tion , to bring all other objects into accord with it , and to give the same movement of harmony , sus- tained and continuous , or gradually varied accord- ing to the occasion , to the sounds that express it- this is poetry . The ...
... tion , to bring all other objects into accord with it , and to give the same movement of harmony , sus- tained and continuous , or gradually varied accord- ing to the occasion , to the sounds that express it- this is poetry . 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.