Lectures on the English PoetsWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 páginas |
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... lover , and the poet , Are of imagination all compact . One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; The madman . While the lover , all as frantic , Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt . The poet's eye , in a fine frenzy rolling ...
... lover , and the poet , Are of imagination all compact . One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; The madman . While the lover , all as frantic , Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt . The poet's eye , in a fine frenzy rolling ...
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... lover , equally with the poet , speaks of the auburn tresses of his mistress as locks of shining gold , because the least tinge of yellow in the hair has , from novelty and a sense of personal beauty , a more lus- trous effect to the ...
... lover , equally with the poet , speaks of the auburn tresses of his mistress as locks of shining gold , because the least tinge of yellow in the hair has , from novelty and a sense of personal beauty , a more lus- trous effect to the ...
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... lover of poetry visit it at evening , when beneath the scented hawthorn and the crescent moon it has built itself a palace of emerald light . This is also one part of nature , one appearance which the glow - worm presents , and that not ...
... lover of poetry visit it at evening , when beneath the scented hawthorn and the crescent moon it has built itself a palace of emerald light . This is also one part of nature , one appearance which the glow - worm presents , and that not ...
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... lovers of poetry in the pres- ent day . Chaucer ( who has been very properly considered as the father of English poetry ) preceded Spenser by two centuries . He is supposed to have been born in London , in the LECTURE II . ] 23 ON ...
... lovers of poetry in the pres- ent day . Chaucer ( who has been very properly considered as the father of English poetry ) preceded Spenser by two centuries . He is supposed to have been born in London , in the LECTURE II . ] 23 ON ...
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... lovers , have a beauty and grandeur , much of which is lost in Dryden's version . For in- stance , such lines as the following are not rendered with their true feeling : " Why shulde I not as well eke tell you all The purtreiture that ...
... lovers , have a beauty and grandeur , much of which is lost in Dryden's version . For in- stance , such lines as the following are not rendered with their true feeling : " Why shulde I not as well eke tell you all The purtreiture that ...
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