Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... 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 , made up of what we wish things ...
... 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 , made up of what we wish things ...
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... turning them to shape , gives an obvious relief to the indistinct and importunate cravings of the will . - We do not wish the thing to be so ; but we wish it to appear such as it is . For know- ledge is conscious power ; and the mind is ...
... turning them to shape , gives an obvious relief to the indistinct and importunate cravings of the will . - We do not wish the thing to be so ; but we wish it to appear such as it is . For know- ledge is conscious power ; and the mind is ...
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... turn to the east or the west , we cannot escape from it . " Man is thus aggrandised in the image of his Maker . The history of the patriarchs is of this kind ; they are founders of a chosen race of people , the inheritors of the earth ...
... turn to the east or the west , we cannot escape from it . " Man is thus aggrandised in the image of his Maker . The history of the patriarchs is of this kind ; they are founders of a chosen race of people , the inheritors of the earth ...
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... turn of Chaucer's mind and restless impatience of his character , and the tone of his writings . Yet it would be too much to attribute the one to the other as cause and effect : for Spenser , whose poetical temperament was as effeminate ...
... turn of Chaucer's mind and restless impatience of his character , and the tone of his writings . Yet it would be too much to attribute the one to the other as cause and effect : for Spenser , whose poetical temperament was as effeminate ...
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... turn to look back at him . We do not see him making faces at us in our life - time , nor perceive him afterwards sitting in mock - majesty , a twin skeleton , beside us , tickling our bare ribs , and staring into our hollow eye - balls ...
... turn to look back at him . We do not see him making faces at us in our life - time , nor perceive him afterwards sitting in mock - majesty , a twin skeleton , beside us , tickling our bare ribs , and staring into our hollow eye - balls ...
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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.