Lectures on the English PoetsJ. Templeman, 1841 - 407 páginas |
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... Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Such tricks hath strong imagination . " If poetry is a dream , the business of life is much the same . If it is a fiction , made up of « what we wish things ...
... Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Such tricks hath strong imagination . " If poetry is a dream , the business of life is much the same . If it is a fiction , made up of « what we wish things ...
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... turning them to shape , gives an obvious relief to the indistinct and importunate cravings of the will . - We do not wish the thing to be so ; but we wish it to appear such as it is . For knowledge is con- scious power ; and the mind is ...
... turning them to shape , gives an obvious relief to the indistinct and importunate cravings of the will . - We do not wish the thing to be so ; but we wish it to appear such as it is . For knowledge is con- scious power ; and the mind is ...
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... turn to the east or the west , we cannot escape from it . " Man is thus aggrandised in the image of his Maker . The history of the patriarchs is of this kind ; they are founders of a chosen race of people , the inheritors of the earth ...
... turn to the east or the west , we cannot escape from it . " Man is thus aggrandised in the image of his Maker . The history of the patriarchs is of this kind ; they are founders of a chosen race of people , the inheritors of the earth ...
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... turn of Chaucer's mind and restless im- patience of his character , and the tone of his writings . Yet it would be too much to attri- bute the one to the other as cause and effect : for Spenser , whose poetical temperament was as ...
... turn of Chaucer's mind and restless im- patience of his character , and the tone of his writings . Yet it would be too much to attri- bute the one to the other as cause and effect : for Spenser , whose poetical temperament was as ...
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... turn to look back at him . We do not see him making faces at us in our life - time , nor perceive him afterwards sitting in mock - majesty , a twin - skeleton , beside us , tickling our bare ribs , and staring into our hollow eye ...
... turn to look back at him . We do not see him making faces at us in our life - time , nor perceive him afterwards sitting in mock - majesty , a twin - skeleton , beside us , tickling our bare ribs , and staring into our hollow eye ...
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