Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... written , seems to be endowed with speech and consciousness , and to utter its dread warning , not without a sense of mortal woes . This author habitually unites the ab- solutely local and individual with the greatest wild- ness and ...
... written , seems to be endowed with speech and consciousness , and to utter its dread warning , not without a sense of mortal woes . This author habitually unites the ab- solutely local and individual with the greatest wild- ness and ...
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... written paper , containing ob- servations on the state of that country and the means of improving it , which remain in full force to the present day . Spenser died at an obscure inn in London , it is supposed in distressed cir ...
... written paper , containing ob- servations on the state of that country and the means of improving it , which remain in full force to the present day . Spenser died at an obscure inn in London , it is supposed in distressed cir ...
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... lies Wrapt in eternal silence , far from enemies . " It is as if " the honey - heavy dew of slumber " had settled on his pen in writing these lines . How different in the subject ( and yet how like in 70 ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
... lies Wrapt in eternal silence , far from enemies . " It is as if " the honey - heavy dew of slumber " had settled on his pen in writing these lines . How different in the subject ( and yet how like in 70 ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
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... written to after - times as they should not willingly let it die . The accomplishment of these intentions , which have lived within me ever since I could conceive myself any thing worth to my country , lies not but in a power above ...
... written to after - times as they should not willingly let it die . The accomplishment of these intentions , which have lived within me ever since I could conceive myself any thing worth to my country , lies not but in a power above ...
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... writing it , ) each party converts it to its own purposes , feels the absolute identity of these abstracted and high speculations ; and that , in fact , a noted political writer of the present day has exhausted nearly the whole account ...
... writing it , ) each party converts it to its own purposes , feels the absolute identity of these abstracted and high speculations ; and that , in fact , a noted political writer of the present day has exhausted nearly the whole account ...
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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.