Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... tion , Providence took an immediate share in the affairs of this life . Jacob's dream arose out of this intimate communion between heaven and earth : it was this that let down , in the sight of the youthful patriarch , a golden ladder ...
... tion , Providence took an immediate share in the affairs of this life . Jacob's dream arose out of this intimate communion between heaven and earth : it was this that let down , in the sight of the youthful patriarch , a golden ladder ...
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... tion , when learning was almost as great a rarity as 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 ...
... tion , when learning was almost as great a rarity as 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 ...
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... tion of character ; and his interest in what he saw gave new distinctness and force to his power of observation . The picturesque and the dramatic are in him closely blended together , and hardly distinguishable ; for he principally ...
... tion of character ; and his interest in what he saw gave new distinctness and force to his power of observation . The picturesque and the dramatic are in him closely blended together , and hardly distinguishable ; for he principally ...
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... comes after triumph and victory , after the pomp of sacrifice , the solemnities of prayer , the celebra- tion of the gorgeous rites of chivalry . The de- scriptions of the three temples of Mars , of Venus 58 ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
... comes after triumph and victory , after the pomp of sacrifice , the solemnities of prayer , the celebra- tion of the gorgeous rites of chivalry . The de- scriptions of the three temples of Mars , of Venus 58 ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
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... fact , however , stares us so plainly in the face , that one would think the smallest reflec- tion must suggest the truth , and overturn our sanguine theories . The greatest poets , the ablest orators ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON . 87.
... fact , however , stares us so plainly in the face , that one would think the smallest reflec- tion must suggest the truth , and overturn our sanguine theories . The greatest poets , the ablest orators ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON . 87.
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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.