Lectures on the English PoetsDodd, Mead, & Company, 1892 - 342 páginas |
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... whole difference between poetry and prose . The Iliad does not cease to be poe- try in a literal translation ; and Addison's ' Cam- paign ' has been very properly denominated a Gazette in rhyme . Common prose differs from poetry , as ...
... whole difference between poetry and prose . The Iliad does not cease to be poe- try in a literal translation ; and Addison's ' Cam- paign ' has been very properly denominated a Gazette in rhyme . Common prose differs from poetry , as ...
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... whole passages without scruple or acknow- ledgment , may appear contrary to the etiquette of modern literature , when the whole stock of poetical common - places has become public property , and no one is compelled to trade upon any ...
... whole passages without scruple or acknow- ledgment , may appear contrary to the etiquette of modern literature , when the whole stock of poetical common - places has become public property , and no one is compelled to trade upon any ...
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... whole appear like the recollection of an actual scene : ' Which as me thought was right a pleasant sight , And eke the briddes song for to here , Would haue rejoiced any earthly wight , 1 Mr. Henry Bradshaw , keeper of the public ...
... whole appear like the recollection of an actual scene : ' Which as me thought was right a pleasant sight , And eke the briddes song for to here , Would haue rejoiced any earthly wight , 1 Mr. Henry Bradshaw , keeper of the public ...
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... good musike , That the voice to angels was most like . ' There is here no affected rapture , no flowery sentiment ; the whole is an ebullition of natural 6 delight welling out of the heart ' like water 5 On Chaucer and Spenser . 65.
... good musike , That the voice to angels was most like . ' There is here no affected rapture , no flowery sentiment ; the whole is an ebullition of natural 6 delight welling out of the heart ' like water 5 On Chaucer and Spenser . 65.
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... whole is as plain as a pike- staff . It might as well be pretended that we cannot see Poussin's pictures for the allegory , as that the allegory prevents us from under- standing Spenser . For instance , when Brito- mart , seated amidst ...
... whole is as plain as a pike- staff . It might as well be pretended that we cannot see Poussin's pictures for the allegory , as that the allegory prevents us from under- standing Spenser . For instance , when Brito- mart , seated amidst ...
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution William Hazlitt Vista completa - 1818 |
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admiration affectation appear Ballads Battle of Hohenlinden beauty Beggar's Opera blank verse Boccaccio breath character Chaucer critics death delight Della Cruscan describes doth equal excellence expression fame fancy feeling finest flowers genius gives grace happy hates hath heart heaven hire human idea images imagination interest Knight's Tale labour language less light lines living look Lord Lord Byron Lord Mayor's show Love waves Lyrical Ballads manners ment Milton mind misanthropy moral Muse Nature never o'er objects Othello painted passion pathos person pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise prose reader rhyme satire sense sentiment Shakspeare Shanter sion song soul sound Spenser spirit story style sweet ther things thou thought tion tragedy trees truth verse wings wolde wonder words Wordsworth writer wyllowe-tree youth
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Página 155 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Página 236 - Unanxious for ourselves; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought, Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. And why? because he thinks himself immortal. All men think all men mortal, but themselves; Themselves, when some alarming shock of fate Strikes thro...
Página 27 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Página 314 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Página 133 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, "this the seat That we must change for Heaven ? this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be...
Página 78 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet ; The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall ; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Página 134 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Página 190 - Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light...
Página 281 - HERE'S a health to ane I lo'e dear! Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear ! Thou art sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, And soft as their parting tear...
Página 131 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?