Lectures on the English PoetsWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 páginas |
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... laugh nor weep , to feel sorrow nor anger , to be cast down nor elated by anything . This was a chimera , however , which never existed but in the brain of the inventor ; and Homer's poetical world has outlived Plato's philosophical ...
... laugh nor weep , to feel sorrow nor anger , to be cast down nor elated by anything . This was a chimera , however , which never existed but in the brain of the inventor ; and Homer's poetical world has outlived Plato's philosophical ...
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... laugh nor weep . The only jest in his poem is an allegorical play upon words , where he describes Malbecco as escaping in the herd of goats , " by the help of his fayre horns on hight . " But he has been unjustly charged with a want of ...
... laugh nor weep . The only jest in his poem is an allegorical play upon words , where he describes Malbecco as escaping in the herd of goats , " by the help of his fayre horns on hight . " But he has been unjustly charged with a want of ...
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... laughed heartily at his worst jokes , and the catcalls in the gallery were silent at his best passages , he went home satisfied , and slept the next night well . He did not trouble himself about Voltaire's criti- cisms . He was willing ...
... laughed heartily at his worst jokes , and the catcalls in the gallery were silent at his best passages , he went home satisfied , and slept the next night well . He did not trouble himself about Voltaire's criti- cisms . He was willing ...
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... laugh at or admire , put them on or off like a masquerade - dress , make much or little of them , indulge them for a longer or a shorter time , as he pleased ; and because , while they amused his fancy and exercised his ingenuity , they ...
... laugh at or admire , put them on or off like a masquerade - dress , make much or little of them , indulge them for a longer or a shorter time , as he pleased ; and because , while they amused his fancy and exercised his ingenuity , they ...
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... power in Europe . The little is made great , and the great little . You hardly know whether to laugh or weep . It is the triumph of insignificance , the apotheosis of foppery and folly . It is the 86 [ LECTURE IV . ON DRYDEN AND POPE .
... power in Europe . The little is made great , and the great little . You hardly know whether to laugh or weep . It is the triumph of insignificance , the apotheosis of foppery and folly . It is the 86 [ LECTURE IV . ON DRYDEN AND POPE .
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