Lectures on the English PoetsWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 páginas |
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... of America , where the philosophical principles of government are carried still farther in theory and practice , we find that the Beggars ' Opera is hooted from the stage . Society LECTURE 1. ] 11 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... of America , where the philosophical principles of government are carried still farther in theory and practice , we find that the Beggars ' Opera is hooted from the stage . Society LECTURE 1. ] 11 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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William Hazlitt. Beggars ' Opera is hooted from the stage . Society , by degrees , is constructed into a machine that carries us safely and insipid- ly from one end of life to the other , in a very comfortable prose style . " " Obscurity ...
William Hazlitt. Beggars ' Opera is hooted from the stage . Society , by degrees , is constructed into a machine that carries us safely and insipid- ly from one end of life to the other , in a very comfortable prose style . " " Obscurity ...
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... stages of the arts , as soon as the first mechanical difficulties had been got over , and the language was sufficiently acquired , they rose by clusters , and in constellations , never so to rise again ! ness . The arts of painting and ...
... stages of the arts , as soon as the first mechanical difficulties had been got over , and the language was sufficiently acquired , they rose by clusters , and in constellations , never so to rise again ! ness . The arts of painting and ...
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... stage . A word , an epithet paints a whole scene , or throws us back whole years in the history of the person represented . So ( as it has been ingeniously remarked ) when Prospero de- scribes himself as left alone in the boat with his ...
... stage . A word , an epithet paints a whole scene , or throws us back whole years in the history of the person represented . So ( as it has been ingeniously remarked ) when Prospero de- scribes himself as left alone in the boat with his ...
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... stage , are liable to be asked all sorts of questions , and are forced to answer for themselves . In Chaucer we perceive a fixed essence of char- acter . In Shakspeare there is a continual composition and de- composition of its elements ...
... stage , are liable to be asked all sorts of questions , and are forced to answer for themselves . In Chaucer we perceive a fixed essence of char- acter . In Shakspeare there is a continual composition and de- composition of its elements ...
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