Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... trees , as much enamoured of her charms as he ? Homer has celebrated the anger of Achilles : but was not the hero as mad as the poct ? Plato ba- nished the poets from his Commonwealth , lest their descriptions of the natural man should ...
... trees , as much enamoured of her charms as he ? Homer has celebrated the anger of Achilles : but was not the hero as mad as the poct ? Plato ba- nished the poets from his Commonwealth , lest their descriptions of the natural man should ...
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... tree , and requires an artificial process to let it out . Shakspeare says— " Our poesy is as a gum Which issues whence ' tis nourished , our gentle flame Provokes itself , and like the current flies Each bound it chafes . " * * Burke's ...
... tree , and requires an artificial process to let it out . Shakspeare says— " Our poesy is as a gum Which issues whence ' tis nourished , our gentle flame Provokes itself , and like the current flies Each bound it chafes . " * * Burke's ...
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... tree That ever yet in all my life I sie As full of blossomes as it might be , Therein a goldfinch leaping pretile Fro bough to bough , and as him list he eet Here and there of buds and floures sweet . And to the herber side was joyning ...
... tree That ever yet in all my life I sie As full of blossomes as it might be , Therein a goldfinch leaping pretile Fro bough to bough , and as him list he eet Here and there of buds and floures sweet . And to the herber side was joyning ...
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... trees old Of stubbes sharpe and hidous to behold ; In which ther ran a romble and a swough , As though a storme shuld bresten every bough . " And again , among innumerable terrific images of death and slaughter painted on the wall , is ...
... trees old Of stubbes sharpe and hidous to behold ; In which ther ran a romble and a swough , As though a storme shuld bresten every bough . " And again , among innumerable terrific images of death and slaughter painted on the wall , is ...
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... tree : " Upon the top of all his lofty crest , A bunch of hairs discolour'd diversely With sprinkled pearl and gold full richly drest Did shake and seem'd to daunce for jollity ; Like to an almond tree ymounted high On top of green ...
... tree : " Upon the top of all his lofty crest , A bunch of hairs discolour'd diversely With sprinkled pearl and gold full richly drest Did shake and seem'd to daunce for jollity ; Like to an almond tree ymounted high On top of green ...
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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.