Lectures on the English PoetsT. Miller, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... verse , " the golden cadences of poetry , " with the tide of feeling , flowing and murmuring as it flows - in short , to take the language of the imagination from off the ground , and enable it to spread its wings where it may indulge ...
... verse , " the golden cadences of poetry , " with the tide of feeling , flowing and murmuring as it flows - in short , to take the language of the imagination from off the ground , and enable it to spread its wings where it may indulge ...
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... verse , seem to have no principle of modulation left in their writings . An excuse might be made for rhyme in the same manner . It is but fair that the ear should linger on the sounds that delight it , or avail itself of the same ...
... verse , seem to have no principle of modulation left in their writings . An excuse might be made for rhyme in the same manner . It is but fair that the ear should linger on the sounds that delight it , or avail itself of the same ...
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... verse . " If it is of the essence of poetry to strike and fix the imagination , whether we will or no , to make the eye of child- hood glisten with the starting tear , to be never thought of afterwards with indifference , John Bunyan ...
... verse . " If it is of the essence of poetry to strike and fix the imagination , whether we will or no , to make the eye of child- hood glisten with the starting tear , to be never thought of afterwards with indifference , John Bunyan ...
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... harmony with the movement of the sentiment . It has not the bold dramatic transitions of Shak- speare's blank verse , nor the high - raised tone of His Milton's ; but it is the perfection of melting har- 84 ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
... harmony with the movement of the sentiment . It has not the bold dramatic transitions of Shak- speare's blank verse , nor the high - raised tone of His Milton's ; but it is the perfection of melting har- 84 ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
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... verse in the language , except Milton's , that for itself is readable . It is not stately and uniformly swelling like his , but varied and broken by the inequalities of the ground it has to pass over in its uncertain course , " And so ...
... verse in the language , except Milton's , that for itself is readable . It is not stately and uniformly swelling like his , but varied and broken by the inequalities of the ground it has to pass over in its uncertain course , " And so ...
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