Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... living , could hardly be guilty of a mean or paltry action . The finest piece of personal satire in Pope ( perhaps in the world ) is his character of Addison ; and this , it may be observed , is of a mixed kind , made up of his respect ...
... living , could hardly be guilty of a mean or paltry action . The finest piece of personal satire in Pope ( perhaps in the world ) is his character of Addison ; and this , it may be observed , is of a mixed kind , made up of his respect ...
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... living would wish that he should blot . Indeed , he himself wished , on his death - bed , formally to expunge his dedication of one of the Seasons to that finished courtier , and candid bio- grapher of his own life , Bub Doddington . As ...
... living would wish that he should blot . Indeed , he himself wished , on his death - bed , formally to expunge his dedication of one of the Seasons to that finished courtier , and candid bio- grapher of his own life , Bub Doddington . As ...
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... living statue in the Winter's Tale . Nature in his descriptions is seen growing around us , fresh and lusty as in itself . We feel the effect of the atmosphere , its humidity or clearness , its heat or cold , the glow of summer , the ...
... living statue in the Winter's Tale . Nature in his descriptions is seen growing around us , fresh and lusty as in itself . We feel the effect of the atmosphere , its humidity or clearness , its heat or cold , the glow of summer , the ...
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... living who belong to the same class of excellence , and of whom I shall here say a few words ; I mean Crabbe , and Robert Bloomfield , the author of the Farmer's Boy . As a painter of simple natural scenery , and of the still life of ...
... living who belong to the same class of excellence , and of whom I shall here say a few words ; I mean Crabbe , and Robert Bloomfield , the author of the Farmer's Boy . As a painter of simple natural scenery , and of the still life of ...
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... living being ; and this it is that makes good that saying of the poet- " To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears . " Thus nature is a kind of universal home , and ON THOMSON AND COWPER ...
... living being ; and this it is that makes good that saying of the poet- " To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears . " Thus nature is a kind of universal home , and ON THOMSON AND COWPER ...
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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.