Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... writing in a tongue , not understood by other nations , and that grows ob- solete and unintelligible to ourselves at the end of every second century . But he needed not have thus antedated his own poetical doom - the loss and entire ...
... writing in a tongue , not understood by other nations , and that grows ob- solete and unintelligible to ourselves at the end of every second century . But he needed not have thus antedated his own poetical doom - the loss and entire ...
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... written ; for though he does not go out of himself by the force of imagination , he goes out of himself by the force of common - places and rhetorical dialogue . On the other hand , they are not so good as Shakspeare's ; but he has left ...
... written ; for though he does not go out of himself by the force of imagination , he goes out of himself by the force of common - places and rhetorical dialogue . On the other hand , they are not so good as Shakspeare's ; but he has left ...
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... written . * His alterations from Chaucer and Boccaccio shew a greater knowledge of the taste of his readers and power of pleasing them , than ac- quaintance with the genius of his authors . He ekes out the lameness of the verse in the ...
... written . * His alterations from Chaucer and Boccaccio shew a greater knowledge of the taste of his readers and power of pleasing them , than ac- quaintance with the genius of his authors . He ekes out the lameness of the verse in the ...
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... to sublimity . His poem upon Nothing is itself no trifling work . His epigrams were the bitterest , the least laboured , and the truest , that ever were written . Sir John Suckling was of the same mercurial stamp , 164 ON DRYDEN AND POPE .
... to sublimity . His poem upon Nothing is itself no trifling work . His epigrams were the bitterest , the least laboured , and the truest , that ever were written . Sir John Suckling was of the same mercurial stamp , 164 ON DRYDEN AND POPE .
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... sweeten gladness In the very gall of sadness . The dull loneness , the black shade , That these hanging vaults have made , * Written in the Fleet Prison . The strange music of the waves , Beating on these 166 ON DRYDEN AND POPE .
... sweeten gladness In the very gall of sadness . The dull loneness , the black shade , That these hanging vaults have made , * Written in the Fleet Prison . The strange music of the waves , Beating on these 166 ON DRYDEN AND POPE .
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admirable affectation allegory appear Ballads beauty Beggar's Opera blank verse Boccaccio Burns character Chaucer common Cutty Sark death delight describes doth Dryden equal excellence face Faery Queen fame fancy feeling finest flowers genius give Gonne grace Gulliver's Travels happy hates hath heart heaven hire Homer human idea images imagination interest kind Knight's Tale labour language less light lines living look Lord Lord Byron Lyrical Ballads manners Milton mind moral Muse nature never o'er objects painted passion pathos person pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise prose racter reader rhyme satire sense sentiment Shakspeare shew song soul sound Spenser spirit spring story style sweet Tam o'Shanter ther thing thou thought tion Titian tree truth verse Whan wings wolde words Wordsworth writer wyllowe-tree youth
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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.