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Poetry is , in all its shapes , the language of the imagination and the passions , of fancy and will . Nothing , therefore , can be more absurd than the outcry which has been sometimes raised by frigid and pedantic critics ...
Poetry is , in all its shapes , the language of the imagination and the passions , of fancy and will . Nothing , therefore , can be more absurd than the outcry which has been sometimes raised by frigid and pedantic critics ...
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It is to supply the inherent defect of harmony in the customary mechanism of language , to make the sound an echo to the sense , when the sense becomes a sort of echo to itself to mingle the tide of verse , ' the golden cadences of ...
It is to supply the inherent defect of harmony in the customary mechanism of language , to make the sound an echo to the sense , when the sense becomes a sort of echo to itself to mingle the tide of verse , ' the golden cadences of ...
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The language of Spenser is full , and copious , to overflowing : it is less pure and idiomatic than Chaucer's , and is enriched and adorned with phrases borrowed from the different languages of Europe , both ancient and modern .
The language of Spenser is full , and copious , to overflowing : it is less pure and idiomatic than Chaucer's , and is enriched and adorned with phrases borrowed from the different languages of Europe , both ancient and modern .
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LECTURE | 1 |
ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER | 31 |
ON SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON | 67 |
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