Lectures on the English Poets, and on the English Comic WritersBell, 1880 - 407 páginas |
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... delightful and instructive collection is the result of the devotion of a lifetime , and deserves as much honour and recognition as many a museum or picture - gallery which has preserved its donor's name for generations . ” Times ...
... delightful and instructive collection is the result of the devotion of a lifetime , and deserves as much honour and recognition as many a museum or picture - gallery which has preserved its donor's name for generations . ” Times ...
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... or for anything else . It is not a mere frivolous accomplish- ment ( as some persons have been led to imagine ) , the trifling amusement of a few idle readers or leisure hours : B it has been the study and delight of mankind in.
... or for anything else . It is not a mere frivolous accomplish- ment ( as some persons have been led to imagine ) , the trifling amusement of a few idle readers or leisure hours : B it has been the study and delight of mankind in.
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... delight , that is not a fit subject for poetry . It is not a branch of authorship : it is " the stuff of which our life is made . " The rest is " mere oblivion , ” a dead letter : for all that is worth remembering in life is the poetry ...
... delight , that is not a fit subject for poetry . It is not a branch of authorship : it is " the stuff of which our life is made . " The rest is " mere oblivion , ” a dead letter : for all that is worth remembering in life is the poetry ...
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... delight , or love . When Lear calls upon the heavens to avenge his cause , " for they are old like him , " there is nothing extravagant or impious in this sublime identification of his age with theirs ; for there is no other image which ...
... delight , or love . When Lear calls upon the heavens to avenge his cause , " for they are old like him , " there is nothing extravagant or impious in this sublime identification of his age with theirs ; for there is no other image which ...
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... delightful or distressing . It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have , and of which we cannot get rid in any other way , that gives an instant " satisfaction to the thought . " This is equally ...
... delightful or distressing . It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have , and of which we cannot get rid in any other way , that gives an instant " satisfaction to the thought . " This is equally ...
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absurdity admirable affectation appear beauty Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson blank verse Boccaccio character Chaucer coloured comedy comic common COVENT GARDEN critics death delight describes Don Quixote dramatic Edition elegance English Engravings equal excellence face fancy feeling folly genius GEORGE BELL GEORGE CRUIKSHANK give grace heart hire History Hogarth Hudibras human humour idea Illustrations imagination instance interest kind Knight's Tale labour Lady language laugh living look Lord ludicrous manners Memoir ment Milton mind Molière moral Muse nature never objects painted passion person picture play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Portrait prose racter reader refinement ridiculous satire scene sense sentiment Shakspeare Shakspeare's sort soul Spenser spirit story style sweet Tatler things thou thought tion Tom Jones Translated truth verse vols whole WILLIAM HAZLITT words writer