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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... idea is lost . Thus nothing can be less adorned than the opening of " Paradise Lost ; " the cadence of the verse alone redeems the whole from being plain prose in the first six lines ; but thenceforward it rises through every clause in ...
... idea is lost . Thus nothing can be less adorned than the opening of " Paradise Lost ; " the cadence of the verse alone redeems the whole from being plain prose in the first six lines ; but thenceforward it rises through every clause in ...
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... ideas so felici- tously as to imply the various antecedent , accompa- nying , and conventional incidents which are neces- sary to be understood before the beholder can per- fectly gather from the forms and colours before his eye the ...
... ideas so felici- tously as to imply the various antecedent , accompa- nying , and conventional incidents which are neces- sary to be understood before the beholder can per- fectly gather from the forms and colours before his eye the ...
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... ideas expressed in these wonderful lines ? -his " limbs of giant mould , " - his stalking , howling , cast- ing himself prone , and falling asleep ; -with the ac- companiments of the " midnight storm , " " the ridgy steep , " " the ...
... ideas expressed in these wonderful lines ? -his " limbs of giant mould , " - his stalking , howling , cast- ing himself prone , and falling asleep ; -with the ac- companiments of the " midnight storm , " " the ridgy steep , " " the ...
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... ideas connected with the combat and the fall , the spectators and the scene , had passed in the presence of that unconscious marble which has given immortality to the pangs of death ; but not a soul among all the beholders through ...
... ideas connected with the combat and the fall , the spectators and the scene , had passed in the presence of that unconscious marble which has given immortality to the pangs of death ; but not a soul among all the beholders through ...
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... ideas from reading them in a dead language , addressed only to the eye , for the sounds , whatever be our pronunciation , are little more than imaginary ; Cicero and Demos- thenes have exercised no such power over posterity as Homer and ...
... ideas from reading them in a dead language , addressed only to the eye , for the sounds , whatever be our pronunciation , are little more than imaginary ; Cicero and Demos- thenes have exercised no such power over posterity as Homer and ...
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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.