Lectures on the English PoetsT. Miller, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... trees , as much enamoured of her charms as he ? Homer has celebrated the anger of Achilles : but was not the hero as mad as the poet ? Plato ba- nished the poets from his Commonwealth , lest their descriptions of the natural man should ...
... trees , as much enamoured of her charms as he ? Homer has celebrated the anger of Achilles : but was not the hero as mad as the poet ? Plato ba- nished the poets from his Commonwealth , lest their descriptions of the natural man should ...
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... 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 flies Each bound it chafes . " * * Burke's ...
... 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 flies Each bound it chafes . " * * Burke's ...
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... tree That ever yet in all my life I sie As full of blossomes as it might be , Therein a goldfinch leaping pretile Fro bough to bough , and as him list he eet Here and there of buds and floures sweet . And to the herber side was joyning ...
... tree That ever yet in all my life I sie As full of blossomes as it might be , Therein a goldfinch leaping pretile Fro bough to bough , and as him list he eet Here and there of buds and floures sweet . And to the herber side was joyning ...
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... trees old Of stubbes sharpe and hidous to behold ; In which ther ran a romble and a swough , As though a storme shuld bresten every bough . " And again , among innumerable terrific images of death and slaughter painted on the wall , is ...
... trees old Of stubbes sharpe and hidous to behold ; In which ther ran a romble and a swough , As though a storme shuld bresten every bough . " And again , among innumerable terrific images of death and slaughter painted on the wall , is ...
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... tree : " Upon the top of all his lofty crest , A bunch of hairs discolour'd diversely With sprinkled pearl and gold full richly drest Did shake and seem'd to daunce for jollity ; Like to an almond tree ymounted high On top of green ...
... tree : " Upon the top of all his lofty crest , A bunch of hairs discolour'd diversely With sprinkled pearl and gold full richly drest Did shake and seem'd to daunce for jollity ; Like to an almond tree ymounted high On top of green ...
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