Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... genius , and when in fact those who first transplant- ed the beauties of other languages into their own , might be considered as public benefactors , and the founders of a national literature . - There are poets older than Chaucer , and ...
... genius , and when in fact those who first transplant- ed the beauties of other languages into their own , might be considered as public benefactors , and the founders of a national literature . - There are poets older than Chaucer , and ...
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... genius in former times , we are sometimes disposed to wonder at the little progress which has since been made in poetry , and in the arts of imitation in general . But this is perhaps a foolish wonder . Nothing can be more contrary to ...
... genius in former times , we are sometimes disposed to wonder at the little progress which has since been made in poetry , and in the arts of imitation in general . But this is perhaps a foolish wonder . Nothing can be more contrary to ...
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... genius and incommunicable power , have always leaped at once from infancy to manhood , from the first rude dawn of invention to their meridian height and dazzling lustre , and have in general declined ever after . This is the peculiar ...
... genius and incommunicable power , have always leaped at once from infancy to manhood , from the first rude dawn of invention to their meridian height and dazzling lustre , and have in general declined ever after . This is the peculiar ...
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... genius on art , that marks out its path before it , and sheds a glory round the Muses ' feet , like that which " Circled Una's angel face , And made a sunshine in the shady place . " The four greatest names in English poetry , are ...
... genius on art , that marks out its path before it , and sheds a glory round the Muses ' feet , like that which " Circled Una's angel face , And made a sunshine in the shady place . " The four greatest names in English poetry , are ...
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... genius was its virtually including the genius of all the great men of his age , and not his differing from them in one acci- dental particular . But to have done with such minute and literal trifling . The striking peculiarity of ...
... genius was its virtually including the genius of all the great men of his age , and not his differing from them in one acci- dental particular . But to have done with such minute and literal trifling . The striking peculiarity of ...
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Página 279 - The effect of reading this old ballad is as if all our hopes and fears hung upon the last fibre of the heart, and we felt that giving way. What silence, what loneliness, what leisure for grief and despair '. ' My father pressed me sair, my mother didna speak. But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break.