Lectures on the English PoetsJ. Templeman, 1841 - 407 páginas |
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... readers or leisure hours - it has been the study and delight of mankind in all ages . Many people suppose that poetry is something to be found only in books , contained in lines of ten syllables , with like endings : but where- ever ...
... readers or leisure hours - it has been the study and delight of mankind in all ages . Many people suppose that poetry is something to be found only in books , contained in lines of ten syllables , with like endings : but where- ever ...
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... readers . Dante's only endeavour is to interest ; and he interests by exciting our sympathy with the emotion by which he is himself possessed . He does not place before us the objects by which that emotion has been created ; but he ...
... readers . Dante's only endeavour is to interest ; and he interests by exciting our sympathy with the emotion by which he is himself possessed . He does not place before us the objects by which that emotion has been created ; but he ...
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... reader . He affords few subjects for picture . There is , indeed , one gigantic one , that of Count Ugolino , of ... readers . As Homer is the first vigour and lustihead , Ossian is the decay and old age of poetry . He lives only in the ...
... reader . He affords few subjects for picture . There is , indeed , one gigantic one , that of Count Ugolino , of ... readers . As Homer is the first vigour and lustihead , Ossian is the decay and old age of poetry . He lives only in the ...
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... reader's mind , but the power which his subject has over his own . The readers of Chaucer's poetry feel more nearly what the persons he describes must have felt than perhaps those of any other poet . His sentiments are not voluntary ...
... reader's mind , but the power which his subject has over his own . The readers of Chaucer's poetry feel more nearly what the persons he describes must have felt than perhaps those of any other poet . His sentiments are not voluntary ...
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... reader , by the friendly expostu- lation of Malcolm- " What ! man , ne'er pull your hat upon your brows ! " Again , Hamlet , in the scene with Rosencrantz and Guilden- stern , somewhat abruptly concludes his fine soliloquy on life by ...
... reader , by the friendly expostu- lation of Malcolm- " What ! man , ne'er pull your hat upon your brows ! " Again , Hamlet , in the scene with Rosencrantz and Guilden- stern , somewhat abruptly concludes his fine soliloquy on life by ...
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