Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831 ; Complete in One VolumeHarper, 1838 - 324 страници |
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... admiration of the pencil that drew them is the highest ingredient of our delight in beholding them , -unless by local , historical , or personal associations , the trees , the streams , the hills , or the buildings remind us of things ...
... admiration of the pencil that drew them is the highest ingredient of our delight in beholding them , -unless by local , historical , or personal associations , the trees , the streams , the hills , or the buildings remind us of things ...
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... admired and feared may be condemned to obloquy , and abandoned to oblivion . Poetry compared with Eloquence , History , and Philosophy . In reference to other species of literature , it is not my purpose to present them in any ...
... admired and feared may be condemned to obloquy , and abandoned to oblivion . Poetry compared with Eloquence , History , and Philosophy . In reference to other species of literature , it is not my purpose to present them in any ...
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... admirable in prose than in verse , there will hardly be found a paragraph of equal power and impression with this ... admired . " The force of ( language ) could no further go , " to parody a noble line of his own ; yet a Westminster ...
... admirable in prose than in verse , there will hardly be found a paragraph of equal power and impression with this ... admired . " The force of ( language ) could no further go , " to parody a noble line of his own ; yet a Westminster ...
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... , eloquence , poetry , architecture , and sculpture , even to the vanishing point of perfec- tion . Nor , in the abstruse sciences , were their attainments less admirable ; while , in music and painting THE FORM OF POETRY . 87.
... , eloquence , poetry , architecture , and sculpture , even to the vanishing point of perfec- tion . Nor , in the abstruse sciences , were their attainments less admirable ; while , in music and painting THE FORM OF POETRY . 87.
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... admirable ; while , in music and painting - from contemporaneous testimony and analogy with their other accomplishments - we may presume that they had reached an exquisite pro- ficiency ; yet , from their ignorance of thorough bass in ...
... admirable ; while , in music and painting - from contemporaneous testimony and analogy with their other accomplishments - we may presume that they had reached an exquisite pro- ficiency ; yet , from their ignorance of thorough bass in ...
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admiration Æneid affecting amid ancient beauty blank verse character circumstances colour composition death delight diction Dryden dwell earth Egyptians eloquence employed English equally excellence express exquisite Faerie Queene fancy feel genius glory Greece Greek hand harmony heart heaven Henry Kirke White hieroglyphics Homer honour human ideas Iliad images imagination immortality invention Joanna Baillie kind labours Lamech language latter learning less lines literature living Lord Lord Byron memory ment metre Milton mind modern moral nature never once original Paradise Lost passage passions peculiar perfect perpetual Pisistratus pleonasm poem poet poetical poetry present prose reader rhyme Robert Burns Roman Rome Saracens scarcely scene sculpture sentiments song soul sound Spenserian stanza spirit splendour stanzas stars strains style sublime syllables taste thee theme things thou thought tion tongue touch truth uncon verse Virgil whole words writing
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Страница 229 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Страница 114 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark! now I hear them, — ding-dong, bell.
Страница 231 - Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up : he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion ; who shall rouse him up ? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come ; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Страница 94 - Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings, Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue Thy lingering, or with one stroke of this dart Strange horror seize thee, and pangs unfelt before.
Страница 86 - As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Страница 78 - And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them ; there remained not so much as one of them.
Страница 77 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their...
Страница 227 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice ; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech : for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt : 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Страница 119 - ... the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.
Страница 76 - Lear. Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.