Lectures on the English PoetsWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 páginas |
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... excellence they appear sufficient to themselves . By their beauty they are raised above the frailties of passion or suffering . By their beauty they are deified . But they are not objects of religious faith to us , and their forms are a ...
... excellence they appear sufficient to themselves . By their beauty they are raised above the frailties of passion or suffering . By their beauty they are deified . But they are not objects of religious faith to us , and their forms are a ...
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... excellence , or what might be termed gusto . They have a local truth and freshness , which gives the very feeling of the air , the coolness or moisture of the ground . In- animate objects are thus made to have a fellow - feeling in the ...
... excellence , or what might be termed gusto . They have a local truth and freshness , which gives the very feeling of the air , the coolness or moisture of the ground . In- animate objects are thus made to have a fellow - feeling in the ...
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... excellence more than another . He was just like any other man , but that he was like all other men . He was the least of an egotist that it was possi- ble to be . He was nothing in himself ; but he was all that others were , or that ...
... excellence more than another . He was just like any other man , but that he was like all other men . He was the least of an egotist that it was possi- ble to be . He was nothing in himself ; but he was all that others were , or that ...
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... excellence , of sullen intricacy , crabbed and perplexed , or of the smoothest and loftiest expansion - from the ease and familiarity of measured conversation to the lyrical sounds Of ditties highly penned , Sung by a fair queen in a ...
... excellence , of sullen intricacy , crabbed and perplexed , or of the smoothest and loftiest expansion - from the ease and familiarity of measured conversation to the lyrical sounds Of ditties highly penned , Sung by a fair queen in a ...
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... excellence constantly in view to stimulate his efforts , and , by all that appears , no love of fame . He wrote for the " great , vulgar and the small , " in his time , not for posterity . If Queen Elizabeth and the maids of honour ...
... excellence constantly in view to stimulate his efforts , and , by all that appears , no love of fame . He wrote for the " great , vulgar and the small , " in his time , not for posterity . If Queen Elizabeth and the maids of honour ...
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