Lectures on the English PoetsDodd, Mead, & Company, 1892 - 342 páginas |
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William Hazlitt. INTRODUCTION CONTENTS . ON POETRY IN GENERAL ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON ON DRYDEN AND POPE . ON THOMSON AND COWPER ON GAY , SWIFT , YOUNG , COLLINS , ETC. CHATTERTON ( continued ) .- ON BURNS , AND ...
William Hazlitt. INTRODUCTION CONTENTS . ON POETRY IN GENERAL ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON ON DRYDEN AND POPE . ON THOMSON AND COWPER ON GAY , SWIFT , YOUNG , COLLINS , ETC. CHATTERTON ( continued ) .- ON BURNS , AND ...
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... Spenser's description of the Satyrs accompanying Una to the cave of Sylvanus : • ' So from the ground she fearless doth arise , And walketh forth without suspect of crime . They , all as glad as birds of joyous prime , Thence lead her ...
... Spenser's description of the Satyrs accompanying Una to the cave of Sylvanus : • ' So from the ground she fearless doth arise , And walketh forth without suspect of crime . They , all as glad as birds of joyous prime , Thence lead her ...
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... heart , another confirmation of that feeling which makes him so often complain , Roll on , ye dark brown years ; ye bring no joy on your wing to Ossian ! ' LECTURE II . ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . HAVING , On Poetry in General . 47.
... heart , another confirmation of that feeling which makes him so often complain , Roll on , ye dark brown years ; ye bring no joy on your wing to Ossian ! ' LECTURE II . ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . HAVING , On Poetry in General . 47.
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... Spenser , two out of four of the greatest names in poetry of which this country has to boast . Both of them , however , were much indebted to the early poets of Italy , and may be considered as belonging , in a certain degree , to the ...
... Spenser , two out of four of the greatest names in poetry of which this country has to boast . Both of them , however , were much indebted to the early poets of Italy , and may be considered as belonging , in a certain degree , to the ...
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... Spenser ; but their genius was not such as to place them in any point of comparison with either of these celebrated men ; and an inquiry into their particular merits or defects might seem rather to belong to the province of the ...
... Spenser ; but their genius was not such as to place them in any point of comparison with either of these celebrated men ; and an inquiry into their particular merits or defects might seem rather to belong to the province of the ...
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution William Hazlitt Vista completa - 1818 |
Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution William Hazlitt Vista completa - 1818 |
Términos y frases comunes
admiration affectation appear Ballads Battle of Hohenlinden beauty Beggar's Opera blank verse Boccaccio breath character Chaucer critics death delight Della Cruscan describes doth equal excellence expression fame fancy feeling finest flowers genius gives grace happy hates hath heart heaven hire human idea images imagination interest Knight's Tale labour language less light lines living look Lord Lord Byron Lord Mayor's show Love waves Lyrical Ballads manners ment Milton mind misanthropy moral Muse Nature never o'er objects Othello painted passion pathos person pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise prose reader rhyme satire sense sentiment Shakspeare Shanter sion song soul sound Spenser spirit story style sweet ther things thou thought tion tragedy trees truth verse wings wolde wonder words Wordsworth writer wyllowe-tree youth
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Página 155 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Página 236 - Unanxious for ourselves; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought, Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. And why? because he thinks himself immortal. All men think all men mortal, but themselves; Themselves, when some alarming shock of fate Strikes thro...
Página 27 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Página 314 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Página 133 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, "this the seat That we must change for Heaven ? this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be...
Página 78 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet ; The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall ; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Página 134 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Página 190 - Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light...
Página 281 - HERE'S a health to ane I lo'e dear! Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear ! Thou art sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, And soft as their parting tear...
Página 131 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?