Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... verse . Milton has told us his idea of poetry in a single line- Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers . " As there are certain sounds that excite certain movements , and the song and dance go together , so there are , no doubt ...
... verse . Milton has told us his idea of poetry in a single line- Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers . " As there are certain sounds that excite certain movements , and the song and dance go together , so there are , no doubt ...
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... verse , " the golden cadences of poetry , " with the tide of feeling , flowing and murmuring as it flows - in short , to take the language of the imagination from off the ground , and enable it to spread its wings where it may indulge ...
... verse , " the golden cadences of poetry , " with the tide of feeling , flowing and murmuring as it flows - in short , to take the language of the imagination from off the ground , and enable it to spread its wings where it may indulge ...
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... verse , seem to have no principle of modulation left in their writings . An excuse might be made for rhyme in the same manner . It is but fair that the ear should linger on the sounds that delight it , or avail itself of the same ...
... verse , seem to have no principle of modulation left in their writings . An excuse might be made for rhyme in the same manner . It is but fair that the ear should linger on the sounds that delight it , or avail itself of the same ...
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... verse . " If it is of the essence of poetry to strike and fix the imagination , whether we will or no , to make the eye of child- hood glisten with the starting tear , to be never thought of afterwards with indifference , John Bunyan ...
... verse . " If it is of the essence of poetry to strike and fix the imagination , whether we will or no , to make the eye of child- hood glisten with the starting tear , to be never thought of afterwards with indifference , John Bunyan ...
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... harmony with the movement of the sentiment . It has not the bold dramatic transitions of Shak- speare's blank verse , nor the high - raised tone of Milton's ; but it is the perfection of melting har- 84 ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
... harmony with the movement of the sentiment . It has not the bold dramatic transitions of Shak- speare's blank verse , nor the high - raised tone of Milton's ; but it is the perfection of melting har- 84 ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
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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.