Lectures on the English PoetsWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 páginas |
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... 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 something 2 LECTURE I Introductory -On ...
... 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 something 2 LECTURE I Introductory -On ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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