Lectures on Poetry and General Literature: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Longman, 1833 - 394 страници |
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... Greece arrived at its zenith of glory , or even of highly advanced civilisation . Dante , Petrarch , and Ariosto , in Italy ; Ercilla in Spain ; Camoens in Portugal ; as well as our own Shakspeare , Spenser , and Milton ; flourished in ...
... Greece arrived at its zenith of glory , or even of highly advanced civilisation . Dante , Petrarch , and Ariosto , in Italy ; Ercilla in Spain ; Camoens in Portugal ; as well as our own Shakspeare , Spenser , and Milton ; flourished in ...
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... Greece remained a nymph , even after she had passed away into a sound . But the first music must have been vocal , and the first words sung to notes must have been metrical . " Blest pair of Syrens , Voice and Verse ! " exclaims the ...
... Greece remained a nymph , even after she had passed away into a sound . But the first music must have been vocal , and the first words sung to notes must have been metrical . " Blest pair of Syrens , Voice and Verse ! " exclaims the ...
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... Greece lent their loveliness , and were abundantly repaid by having that part in her which she borrowed from them . Perhaps in portrait alone can painting claim the ad- vantage of poetry ; because there the pencil perpe- tuates the very ...
... Greece lent their loveliness , and were abundantly repaid by having that part in her which she borrowed from them . Perhaps in portrait alone can painting claim the ad- vantage of poetry ; because there the pencil perpe- tuates the very ...
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... Greece may be advantageously quoted here : - " There shalt thou hear and learn the secret power Of harmony , in tones and numbers hit By voice or hand ; and various - measured verse , Æolian charms and Dorian lyric odes , And his , who ...
... Greece may be advantageously quoted here : - " There shalt thou hear and learn the secret power Of harmony , in tones and numbers hit By voice or hand ; and various - measured verse , Æolian charms and Dorian lyric odes , And his , who ...
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... Greece in consequence of the anger of Achilles ; but , with all his noble exaggeration of the strength , speed , prowess , and other qualities of his heroes , the splendour of their arms , and the sumptuousness of their state , he has ...
... Greece in consequence of the anger of Achilles ; but , with all his noble exaggeration of the strength , speed , prowess , and other qualities of his heroes , the splendour of their arms , and the sumptuousness of their state , he has ...
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