Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... sort of endless sing - song . - Not that I would , on that account , part with the stanza of Spenser . We are , perhaps , indebted to this very ne- cessity of finding out new forms of expression , and to the occasional faults to which ...
... sort of endless sing - song . - Not that I would , on that account , part with the stanza of Spenser . We are , perhaps , indebted to this very ne- cessity of finding out new forms of expression , and to the occasional faults to which ...
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... sort of intuitive power , the same faculty of bringing every object in nature , whether pre- sent or absent , before the mind's eye , is observable in the speech of Cleopatra , when conjecturing what were the employments of Antony in ...
... sort of intuitive power , the same faculty of bringing every object in nature , whether pre- sent or absent , before the mind's eye , is observable in the speech of Cleopatra , when conjecturing what were the employments of Antony in ...
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... sort of people , and not altogether to be despised . The question , whether Pope was a poet , has hardly yet been settled , and is hardly worth set- tling ; for if he was not a great poet , he must have been a great prose - writer ...
... sort of people , and not altogether to be despised . The question , whether Pope was a poet , has hardly yet been settled , and is hardly worth set- tling ; for if he was not a great poet , he must have been a great prose - writer ...
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... sort in some other writer . Thus they say that the line , " I lisp'd in numbers , for the numbers came , " is pretty , but taken from that of Ovid- Et quum conabar scribere , versus erat . They are ON DRYDEN AND POPE . 155.
... sort in some other writer . Thus they say that the line , " I lisp'd in numbers , for the numbers came , " is pretty , but taken from that of Ovid- Et quum conabar scribere , versus erat . They are ON DRYDEN AND POPE . 155.
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... sort of passionate enthusiasm in it ; his con- tempt for every thing that others respect , almost amounts to sublimity . His poem upon Nothing is itself no trifling work . His epigrams were the bitterest , the least laboured , and the ...
... sort of passionate enthusiasm in it ; his con- tempt for every thing that others respect , almost amounts to sublimity . His poem upon Nothing is itself no trifling work . His epigrams were the bitterest , the least laboured , and the ...
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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.