Lectures on the English PoetsT. Miller, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... 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 Greek ...
... 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 Greek ...
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... genius of a poet . It has been made a question whether Richardson's romances are poetry ; and the answer perhaps is , that they are not poetry , because they are not romance . The interest is worked up to an inconceivable height ; but ...
... genius of a poet . It has been made a question whether Richardson's romances are poetry ; and the answer perhaps is , that they are not poetry , because they are not romance . The interest is worked up to an inconceivable height ; but ...
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... genius is like Ariel confined in a pine- tree , and requires an artificial process to let it out . Shakspeare says— " Our poesy is as a gum Which issues whence ' tis nourished , our gentle flame Provokes itself , and like the current ...
... genius is like Ariel confined in a pine- tree , and requires an artificial process to let it out . Shakspeare says— " Our poesy is as a gum Which issues whence ' tis nourished , our gentle flame Provokes itself , and like the current ...
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... genius is not a sparkling flame , but the sullen heat of a furnace . He is power , passion , self - will personified . In all that relates to the descriptive or fanciful part of poetry , he bears no comparison to many who had gone ...
... genius is not a sparkling flame , but the sullen heat of a furnace . He is power , passion , self - will personified . In all that relates to the descriptive or fanciful part of poetry , he bears no comparison to many who had gone ...
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... genius and history of English poetry . I shall take , as the subject of the present lecture , Chaucer and Spenser , two out of four of the greatest names in poetry , which this country has to boast . Both of them , however , were much ...
... genius and history of English poetry . I shall take , as the subject of the present lecture , Chaucer and Spenser , two out of four of the greatest names in poetry , which this country has to boast . Both of them , however , were much ...
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