Lectures on the English PoetsJ. Templeman, 1841 - 407 páginas |
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... POPE LECTURE V. ON THOMSON AND COWPER · LECTURE VI . ON SWIFT , YOUNG , GRAY , COLLINS , & c . LECTURE VII . Page 38 82 • 132 164 • 201 ON BURNS , AND THE OLD ENGLISH BALLADS • 240 LECTURE VIII . ON THE LIVING POETS · 278 APPENDIX : -No ...
... POPE LECTURE V. ON THOMSON AND COWPER · LECTURE VI . ON SWIFT , YOUNG , GRAY , COLLINS , & c . LECTURE VII . Page 38 82 • 132 164 • 201 ON BURNS , AND THE OLD ENGLISH BALLADS • 240 LECTURE VIII . ON THE LIVING POETS · 278 APPENDIX : -No ...
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... thought . " This is equally the origin of wit and fancy , of comedy and tragedy , of the sublime and pathetic . When Pope says of the Lord Mayor's shew , — - " Now night descending , the proud scene is o'er 14 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... thought . " This is equally the origin of wit and fancy , of comedy and tragedy , of the sublime and pathetic . When Pope says of the Lord Mayor's shew , — - " Now night descending , the proud scene is o'er 14 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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... Pope's versification is tiresome , from its ex- cessive sweetness and uniformity . Shakspeare's blank verse is the perfection of dramatic dialogue . All is not poetry that passes for such : nor does verse make the whole difference ...
... Pope's versification is tiresome , from its ex- cessive sweetness and uniformity . Shakspeare's blank verse is the perfection of dramatic dialogue . All is not poetry that passes for such : nor does verse make the whole difference ...
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... Pope Anastasius the Sixth : " and half the person- ages whom he has crowded into the Inferno are his own acquaintance . All this perhaps tends to heighten the effect by the bold inte- mixture of realities , and by an appeal , as it were ...
... Pope Anastasius the Sixth : " and half the person- ages whom he has crowded into the Inferno are his own acquaintance . All this perhaps tends to heighten the effect by the bold inte- mixture of realities , and by an appeal , as it were ...
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... Pope has very admirably modernised ) is , perhaps , une- qualled as a comic story . The Cock and the Fox is also excellent for lively strokes of cha- racter and satire . January and May is not so good as some of the others . Chaucer's ...
... Pope has very admirably modernised ) is , perhaps , une- qualled as a comic story . The Cock and the Fox is also excellent for lively strokes of cha- racter and satire . January and May is not so good as some of the others . Chaucer's ...
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