Lectures on the English PoetsWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 páginas |
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... writer has more or less of rhythmi- cal adaptation , except poets , who , when deprived of the regular mechanism of verse , seem to have no principle of modulation left in their writings . An excuse might be made for rhyme in the same ...
... writer has more or less of rhythmi- cal adaptation , except poets , who , when deprived of the regular mechanism of verse , seem to have no principle of modulation left in their writings . An excuse might be made for rhyme in the same ...
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... writer's genius , though not " dipped in dews of Castalie , " was baptised with the Holy Spirit and with fire . The prints in this book are no small part of it . If the confinement of Philoctetes in the island of Lemnos was a subject ...
... writer's genius , though not " dipped in dews of Castalie , " was baptised with the Holy Spirit and with fire . The prints in this book are no small part of it . If the confinement of Philoctetes in the island of Lemnos was a subject ...
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... writer with breathless expectation , but is dragged along with an infi- nite number of pins and wheels , like those with which the Lilli- putians dragged Gulliver pinioned to the royal palace . — Sir Charles Grandison is a coxcomb ...
... writer with breathless expectation , but is dragged along with an infi- nite number of pins and wheels , like those with which the Lilli- putians dragged Gulliver pinioned to the royal palace . — Sir Charles Grandison is a coxcomb ...
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... writers , the most hard and impenetrable , the most opposite to the flowery and glittering ; who relies most on his own ... writer whom I shall mention last , and whom I can- not persuade myself to think a mere modern in the ground- work ...
... writers , the most hard and impenetrable , the most opposite to the flowery and glittering ; who relies most on his own ... writer whom I shall mention last , and whom I can- not persuade myself to think a mere modern in the ground- work ...
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... writer was nothing , it would only be another instance of mutability , another blank made , another void left in the heart , another confirmation of that feeling which makes him so often complain , " Roll on , ye dark brown years , ye ...
... writer was nothing , it would only be another instance of mutability , another blank made , another void left in the heart , another confirmation of that feeling which makes him so often complain , " Roll on , ye dark brown years , ye ...
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