Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... thought , in action , to sharpen our intellect , to arm our will against it , to know the worst we have to contend with , and to contend with it to the utmost . Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion , the most vivid form of ...
... thought , in action , to sharpen our intellect , to arm our will against it , to know the worst we have to contend with , and to contend with it to the utmost . Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion , the most vivid form of ...
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... thought . " This is equally the origin of wit and fancy , of comedy and tragedy , of the sublime and pathetic . When Pope says of the Lord Mayor's shew , — " Now night descending , the proud scene is o'er , But lives in Settle's numbers ...
... thought . " This is equally the origin of wit and fancy , of comedy and tragedy , of the sublime and pathetic . When Pope says of the Lord Mayor's shew , — " Now night descending , the proud scene is o'er , But lives in Settle's numbers ...
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... Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers . " As there are certain sounds that excite certain movements , and the song and dance go together , so there are , no doubt , certain thoughts that lead to certain tones of voice , or ...
... Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers . " As there are certain sounds that excite certain movements , and the song and dance go together , so there are , no doubt , certain thoughts that lead to certain tones of voice , or ...
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... thought is the sustained and continuous also . There is a near connection between music and deep - rooted passion . Mad people sing . As often as articula- tion passes naturally into intonation , there poetry begins . Where one idea ...
... thought is the sustained and continuous also . There is a near connection between music and deep - rooted passion . Mad people sing . As often as articula- tion passes naturally into intonation , there poetry begins . Where one idea ...
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... the eye of child- hood glisten with the starting tear , to be never thought of afterwards with indifference , John Bunyan and Daniel Defoe may be permitted to The prints If the con- pass for poets in their ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 27.
... the eye of child- hood glisten with the starting tear , to be never thought of afterwards with indifference , John Bunyan and Daniel Defoe may be permitted to The prints If the con- pass for poets in their ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 27.
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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.