Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... youth . He waves his wand of enchantment - and at once embodies airy beings , and throws a delicious veil over all actual objects . The two worlds of reality and of fiction are poised on the wings of his ima- gination . His ideas ...
... youth . He waves his wand of enchantment - and at once embodies airy beings , and throws a delicious veil over all actual objects . The two worlds of reality and of fiction are poised on the wings of his ima- gination . His ideas ...
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... youth , and manhood , and seem to contain in them no principle of limitation or decay and , inquiring no farther about the matter , we infer , in the intoxication of our pride , and the height of our self - congratulation , that the ...
... youth , and manhood , and seem to contain in them no principle of limitation or decay and , inquiring no farther about the matter , we infer , in the intoxication of our pride , and the height of our self - congratulation , that the ...
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... . He had girded himself up , and as it were , sanctified his genius to this service from his youth . " For after , " he says , " I had from my first years , years , by the ceaseless diligence 112 ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON .
... . He had girded himself up , and as it were , sanctified his genius to this service from his youth . " For after , " he says , " I had from my first years , years , by the ceaseless diligence 112 ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON .
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... youth or the va- pours of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist , or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite , nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters , but by ...
... youth or the va- pours of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist , or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite , nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters , but by ...
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... Youth smiled celestial , and to every limb Suitable grace diffus'd , so well he feign'd : Under a coronet his flowing hair In curls on either cheek play'd ; wings he wore Of many a colour'd plume sprinkled with gold , His habit fit for ...
... Youth smiled celestial , and to every limb Suitable grace diffus'd , so well he feign'd : Under a coronet his flowing hair In curls on either cheek play'd ; wings he wore Of many a colour'd plume sprinkled with gold , His habit fit for ...
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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.