Lectures on English poetrySmith, Elder & Company, 1830 - 543 страници |
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... give per- petuity to the memory of Genius is one of the most grateful offices of humanity ; nor does man ever seem more deserving of immortality himself , than when he is thus endeavouring to confer it worthily upon others . The late ...
... give per- petuity to the memory of Genius is one of the most grateful offices of humanity ; nor does man ever seem more deserving of immortality himself , than when he is thus endeavouring to confer it worthily upon others . The late ...
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... give so solemn and impressive an effect to the service of the Church , was abolished as one of the most odious among the abominations of Po- pery ; and Chaucer , Spenser , and Shakspeare , were exiled from the libraries of the orthodox ...
... give so solemn and impressive an effect to the service of the Church , was abolished as one of the most odious among the abominations of Po- pery ; and Chaucer , Spenser , and Shakspeare , were exiled from the libraries of the orthodox ...
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... give full effect to the harmony . The unpleasant effect produced upon the ear by the frequently running of the sense of one line with another , and especially of continuing the sentence from the last of the next , Still , for the line ...
... give full effect to the harmony . The unpleasant effect produced upon the ear by the frequently running of the sense of one line with another , and especially of continuing the sentence from the last of the next , Still , for the line ...
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... give me some drink , Titinius , ' Like a sick girl ! " In the Augustan age , however , things were ordered very differently ; - " On avoit changé tout cela . " Alexander could not appear upon the Stage until one of the persons of the ...
... give me some drink , Titinius , ' Like a sick girl ! " In the Augustan age , however , things were ordered very differently ; - " On avoit changé tout cela . " Alexander could not appear upon the Stage until one of the persons of the ...
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... much more truth and propriety , be applied to Glover : - " Cold approbation gives the lingering bays , And those who dare not censure , scarce can praise . " But brighter days were about to dawn on English Poetical 36 LECTURES ON.
... much more truth and propriety , be applied to Glover : - " Cold approbation gives the lingering bays , And those who dare not censure , scarce can praise . " But brighter days were about to dawn on English Poetical 36 LECTURES ON.
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Страница 93 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Страница 204 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Страница 118 - Sheds itself through the face, As alone there triumphs to the life All the gain, all the good, of the elements
Страница 498 - And immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne: and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Страница 370 - With those just spirits that wear victorious palms. Hymns devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly: That we on earth with undiscording voice May rightly answer that melodious noise; As once we did. till...
Страница 141 - And Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table Round again, But that a ribald King and Court Bade him toil on, to make them sport ; Demanded for their niggard pay, Fit for their souls, a looser lay, Licentious satire, song, and play ; The world defrauded of the high design, Profaned the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
Страница 196 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style...
Страница xiv - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Страница 4 - Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow; Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound, And worlds applaud that must not yet be found!
Страница 198 - And wilt thou leave me thus ? Say nay ! say nay ! And wilt thou leave me thus ? That hath loved thee so long In wealth and woe among ; And is thy heart so strong As for to leave me thus ? Say nay ! say nay...