Lectures on the English PoetsJ. Templeman, 1841 - 407 páginas |
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... persons have been led to imagine ) , the trifling amusement of a few idle readers or leisure hours - it has been the study and delight of mankind in all ages . Many people suppose that poetry is something to be found only in books ...
... persons have been led to imagine ) , the trifling amusement of a few idle readers or leisure hours - it has been the study and delight of mankind in all ages . Many people suppose that poetry is something to be found only in books ...
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... person who has just trod upon a serpent with the still - life expression of a common portrait , as the poet to describe the most striking and vivid impressions which things can be supposed to make upon the mind in the language of common ...
... person who has just trod upon a serpent with the still - life expression of a common portrait , as the poet to describe the most striking and vivid impressions which things can be supposed to make upon the mind in the language of common ...
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... person who has seen some object of horror . The improbability of the events , the abruptness and monotony in the Inferno , are excessive : but the interest never flags , from the continued earnestness of the author's mind . Dante's ...
... person who has seen some object of horror . The improbability of the events , the abruptness and monotony in the Inferno , are excessive : but the interest never flags , from the continued earnestness of the author's mind . Dante's ...
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... person- ages whom he has crowded into the Inferno are his own acquaintance . All this perhaps tends to heighten the effect by the bold inte- mixture of realities , and by an appeal , as it were , to the individual knowledge and expe ...
... person- ages whom he has crowded into the Inferno are his own acquaintance . All this perhaps tends to heighten the effect by the bold inte- mixture of realities , and by an appeal , as it were , to the individual knowledge and expe ...
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... persons and things that he had known and been intimately concerned in ; the same op- portunities , operating on a differently consti- tuted frame , only served to alienate Spenser's mind the more from the " close pent - up " scenes of ...
... persons and things that he had known and been intimately concerned in ; the same op- portunities , operating on a differently consti- tuted frame , only served to alienate Spenser's mind the more from the " close pent - up " scenes of ...
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