Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... wish things to be , and fancy that they are , because we wish them so , there is no other nor better reality . Ariosto has described the loves of Angelica and Medoro : but was not Medoro , who ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... wish things to be , and fancy that they are , because we wish them so , there is no other nor better reality . Ariosto has described the loves of Angelica and Medoro : but was not Medoro , who ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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... wishes and fancies , without poetry ; but poetry is the most emphatical language that can be found for those creations of the mind " which ecstacy is very cun- ning in . " Neither a mere description of natural ob- jects , nor a mere ...
... wishes and fancies , without poetry ; but poetry is the most emphatical language that can be found for those creations of the mind " which ecstacy is very cun- ning in . " Neither a mere description of natural ob- jects , nor a mere ...
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... 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 no longer , in this case , the dupe , though it may be the victim of vice or folly . of Poetry is in all its shapes ...
... 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 no longer , in this case , the dupe , though it may be the victim of vice or folly . of Poetry is in all its shapes ...
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... wishes to describe with the accuracy , the discrimination of one who relates what has happened to himself , or has had the best information from those who have been eye - witnesses of it . The strokes of his pencil always tell . He ...
... wishes to describe with the accuracy , the discrimination of one who relates what has happened to himself , or has had the best information from those who have been eye - witnesses of it . The strokes of his pencil always tell . He ...
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... wish to be allowed to give one or two instances of what I mean . I will take the following from the Knight's Tale . The distress of Arcite , in consequence of his banishment from his love , is thus described : " Whan that Arcite to ...
... wish to be allowed to give one or two instances of what I mean . I will take the following from the Knight's Tale . The distress of Arcite , in consequence of his banishment from his love , is thus described : " Whan that Arcite to ...
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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.