Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... truth or abstract rea- son . The painter of history might as well be re- quired to represent the face of a person who has just trod upon a serpent with the still - life expres- sion of a common portrait , as the poet to describe the ...
... truth or abstract rea- son . The painter of history might as well be re- quired to represent the face of a person who has just trod upon a serpent with the still - life expres- sion of a common portrait , as the poet to describe the ...
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... truth of fiction ! What deep feeling in the description of Christian's swimming across the water at last , and in the picture of the Shining Ones within the gates , with wings at their backs and garlands on their heads , who are to wipe ...
... truth of fiction ! What deep feeling in the description of Christian's swimming across the water at last , and in the picture of the Shining Ones within the gates , with wings at their backs and garlands on their heads , who are to wipe ...
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... truth and feeling in Richardson ; but it is extracted from a caput mortuum of cir- cumstances : it does not evaporate of itself . His poetical genius is like Ariel confined in a pine- tree , and requires an artificial process to let it ...
... truth and feeling in Richardson ; but it is extracted from a caput mortuum of cir- cumstances : it does not evaporate of itself . His poetical genius is like Ariel confined in a pine- tree , and requires an artificial process to let it ...
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... truth , their force , and variety . His poetry is , like his religion , the poetry of number and form : he describes the bodies as well as the souls of men . The poetry of the Bible is that of imagination and of faith : it is abstract ...
... truth , their force , and variety . His poetry is , like his religion , the poetry of number and form : he describes the bodies as well as the souls of men . The poetry of the Bible is that of imagination and of faith : it is abstract ...
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... truth . He exhibits for the most part the naked object , with little drapery thrown over it . His metaphors , which are few , are not for ornament , but use , and as like as possible to the things themselves . He does not affect to shew ...
... truth . He exhibits for the most part the naked object , with little drapery thrown over it . His metaphors , which are few , are not for ornament , but use , and as like as possible to the things themselves . He does not affect to shew ...
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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.