Lectures on the English Poets

admiration affectation allegory appear Ballads beauty Beggar's Opera blank verse Boccaccio character Chaucer circumstances common Cutty Sark death delight describes doth equal excellence expression face Faery Queen fame fancy feeling finest flowers genius give Gonne grace Gulliver’s Travels happy hates hath heart heaven Herbert Croft hire Homer human idea images imagination indifference instance interest labour language lines living look Lord Lord Byron Lyrical Ballads manners Milton mind moral Muse nature never objects painting Paradise Lost passion pathos perfect persons pleasure poem poet poet’s poetical poetry Pope Pope’s praise prose Rabelais reader rhyme satire sense sentiment Shakspeare shew song soul sound Spenser spirit spring style sweet Tam o'Shanter ther thing thou thought Titian tree truth verse wings wolde words Wordsworth writer wyllowe-tree youth