Lectures on the English PoetsDodd, Mead, & Company, 1892 - 342 páginas |
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... manner , and by the most striking examples of the same quality in other instances . Poetry , according to Lord Bacon , for this reason has something divine in it , be- cause it raises the mind and hurries it into sub- limity , by ...
... manner , and by the most striking examples of the same quality in other instances . Poetry , according to Lord Bacon , for this reason has something divine in it , be- cause it raises the mind and hurries it into sub- limity , by ...
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... manner , the ' So I am of Cordelia gushes from her heart like a torrent of tears , relieving it of a weight of love and of supposed ingratitude , which had pressed upon it for years . What a fine return - of the passion upon itself is ...
... manner , the ' So I am of Cordelia gushes from her heart like a torrent of tears , relieving it of a weight of love and of supposed ingratitude , which had pressed upon it for years . What a fine return - of the passion upon itself is ...
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... manner connected with it . But this last is the proper province of the imagination . Again , as it relates to passion , painting gives the event , poetry the progress of events ; but it is during the pro- - gress , in the interval of ...
... manner connected with it . But this last is the proper province of the imagination . Again , as it relates to passion , painting gives the event , poetry the progress of events ; but it is during the pro- - gress , in the interval of ...
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... manner . An excuse might be made for rhyme in the It is but fair that the ear should linger on the sounds that delight it , or avail it- self of the same brilliant coincidence and unex- pected recurrence of syllables , that have been ...
... manner . An excuse might be made for rhyme in the It is but fair that the ear should linger on the sounds that delight it , or avail it- self of the same brilliant coincidence and unex- pected recurrence of syllables , that have been ...
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... manners of many men ; and he has brought them all to- gether in his poem . He describes his heroes going to battle with a prodigality of life aris- ing from an exuberance of animal spirits ; we see them before us , their number and ...
... manners of many men ; and he has brought them all to- gether in his poem . He describes his heroes going to battle with a prodigality of life aris- ing from an exuberance of animal spirits ; we see them before us , their number and ...
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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 |
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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?