Lectures on the English PoetsWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 páginas |
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... serious descriptions in his account of Palamon when left alone in his cell : " Swiche sorrow he maketh that the grete tour Resouned of his yelling and clamour : The pure fetters on his shinnes grete Were of his bitter salte teres wete ...
... serious descriptions in his account of Palamon when left alone in his cell : " Swiche sorrow he maketh that the grete tour Resouned of his yelling and clamour : The pure fetters on his shinnes grete Were of his bitter salte teres wete ...
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... serious apostrophe to the great heirs of glory , the triumphant bards of antiquity ! The finest burst of severe moral invective in all Pope is the prophetical conclusion of the epilogue to the Satires : " Virtue may chuse the high or ...
... serious apostrophe to the great heirs of glory , the triumphant bards of antiquity ! The finest burst of severe moral invective in all Pope is the prophetical conclusion of the epilogue to the Satires : " Virtue may chuse the high or ...
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... serious , swelling into bombast . But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him . No man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit , and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets , Quantum ...
... serious , swelling into bombast . But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him . No man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit , and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets , Quantum ...
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... serious tales in Boccaccio and Chaucer , as that of Isabella , the Falcon , of Constance , the Prioress's Tale , and others , if exe- cuted with taste and spirit , could not fail to succeed in the present day . It should appear , in ...
... serious tales in Boccaccio and Chaucer , as that of Isabella , the Falcon , of Constance , the Prioress's Tale , and others , if exe- cuted with taste and spirit , could not fail to succeed in the present day . It should appear , in ...
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... and pas- sions of others , particularly of a tragic kind . The subject of Tancred and Sigismunda , which is taken from a serious episode in Gil Blas , is an admirable one , but 108 [ LECTURE V. ON THOMSON AND COWPER .
... and pas- sions of others , particularly of a tragic kind . The subject of Tancred and Sigismunda , which is taken from a serious episode in Gil Blas , is an admirable one , but 108 [ LECTURE V. ON THOMSON AND COWPER .
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