Lectures on the English PoetsWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 43
Página 1
... persons have been led to imagine , ) the trifling amusement of a few idle readers or leisure hours — it has been the study and delight of mankind in • all ages . Many people suppose that poetry is 2 LECTURE I Introductory -On Poetry in ...
... persons have been led to imagine , ) the trifling amusement of a few idle readers or leisure hours — it has been the study and delight of mankind in • all ages . Many people suppose that poetry is 2 LECTURE I Introductory -On Poetry in ...
Página 10
... person who has just trod upon a serpent with the still - life expression of a common por- trait , as the poet to describe the most striking and vivid im- pressions which things can be supposed to make upon the mind in the language of ...
... person who has just trod upon a serpent with the still - life expression of a common por- trait , as the poet to describe the most striking and vivid im- pressions which things can be supposed to make upon the mind in the language of ...
Página 21
... person who has seen some object of horror . The improbability of the events , the abruptness and monotony in the Inferno , are excessive : but the interest never flags , from the continued earnestness of the author's mind . Dante's ...
... person who has seen some object of horror . The improbability of the events , the abruptness and monotony in the Inferno , are excessive : but the interest never flags , from the continued earnestness of the author's mind . Dante's ...
Página 24
... persons and things that he had known and been intimately concerned in ; the same op- portunities , operating on a differently constituted frame , only served to alienate Spenser's mind the more from the " close pent- up " scenes of ...
... persons and things that he had known and been intimately concerned in ; the same op- portunities , operating on a differently constituted frame , only served to alienate Spenser's mind the more from the " close pent- up " scenes of ...
Página 26
... persons really concerned : yet , as he never omits any ma- terial circumstance , he is prolix from the number of points on which he touches , without being diffuse on any one ; and is sometimes tedious from the fidelity with which he ...
... persons really concerned : yet , as he never omits any ma- terial circumstance , he is prolix from the number of points on which he touches , without being diffuse on any one ; and is sometimes tedious from the fidelity with which he ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
admiration Æneid affectation artificial Ballads beauty Beggar's Opera blank verse Boccaccio character Chaucer circumstances common critic death delight describes epic poetry equal excellence Faery Queen fame fancy feeling flowers forms genius give Gonne grace hand happy hates hath heart Heaven Herbert Croft hire human idea images imagination interest Knight's Tale labour language less light lines living look Lord Byron Lordship Lycidas Lyrical Ballads manners Milton mind moral Muse nature never o'er objects painted Paradise Lost passion pathos person Petrarch pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise prose reader rhyme sense sentiment Shakspeare Shakspeare's simplicity sing song soul sound Spenser spirit spring story style sublime sweet thee things thou thought tion Titian tree truth verse wind wings words Wordsworth writer youth