Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... writer has more or less of rhythmical adaptation , except poets , who , when deprived of the regular mechanism of verse , seem to have no principle of modulation left in their writings . An excuse might be made for rhyme in the same ...
... writer has more or less of rhythmical adaptation , except poets , who , when deprived of the regular mechanism of verse , seem to have no principle of modulation left in their writings . An excuse might be made for rhyme in the same ...
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... writer's genius , though not " dipped in dews of Castalie , " was baptised with the Holy Spirit and with fire . in this book are no small part of it . finement of Philoctetes in the island was a subject for the most beautiful of all the ...
... writer's genius , though not " dipped in dews of Castalie , " was baptised with the Holy Spirit and with fire . in this book are no small part of it . finement of Philoctetes in the island was a subject for the most beautiful of all the ...
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... want of elasticity and motion . The story does not " give an echo to the seat where love is throned . " The heart does not answer of itself like a chord in music . The fancy does not run on before the writer with ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 29.
... want of elasticity and motion . The story does not " give an echo to the seat where love is throned . " The heart does not answer of itself like a chord in music . The fancy does not run on before the writer with ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 29.
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William Hazlitt. The fancy does not run on before the writer with breathless expectation , but is dragged along with an infinite number of pins and wheels , like those with which the Lilliputians dragged Gulliver pinioned to the royal ...
William Hazlitt. The fancy does not run on before the writer with breathless expectation , but is dragged along with an infinite number of pins and wheels , like those with which the Lilliputians dragged Gulliver pinioned to the royal ...
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... writers , because their images , though fine in themselves , are not to the purpose , and do not carry on the argument . The French poetry wants the forms of the ima- gination . It is didactic more than dramatic . And some of our own ...
... writers , because their images , though fine in themselves , are not to the purpose , and do not carry on the argument . The French poetry wants the forms of the ima- gination . It is didactic more than dramatic . And some of our own ...
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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.