Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831 ; Complete in One VolumeHarper, 1838 - 324 Seiten |
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... sentiments are so intimately connected , that they are remembered together ; they are soul and body , which cannot be separated without death , - -a death in which the dis- solution of the one causes the disappearance of the other ; if ...
... sentiments are so intimately connected , that they are remembered together ; they are soul and body , which cannot be separated without death , - -a death in which the dis- solution of the one causes the disappearance of the other ; if ...
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... sentiments of poetry ring in the memory , and play with the affec- tions : but rarely indeed in sculpture does the image presented to the eye become a statue of thought in the mind . This may be principally owing to the paucity of ...
... sentiments of poetry ring in the memory , and play with the affec- tions : but rarely indeed in sculpture does the image presented to the eye become a statue of thought in the mind . This may be principally owing to the paucity of ...
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... sentiments , contained in the book , which , to be faithful interpreters , they deemed right to understand well for themselves beyond the literal text . On the last day , when the version was presumed to be as perfect as the parties ...
... sentiments , contained in the book , which , to be faithful interpreters , they deemed right to understand well for themselves beyond the literal text . On the last day , when the version was presumed to be as perfect as the parties ...
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... sentiments will be acknowledged by every one who has experienced the delight to which they refer , yet such are the devastations of time , war , and civil changes , that the saints of Iona , were they to rise from their graves , would ...
... sentiments will be acknowledged by every one who has experienced the delight to which they refer , yet such are the devastations of time , war , and civil changes , that the saints of Iona , were they to rise from their graves , would ...
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... sentiments , images , and associations kindred to those which would be awa- kened in the mind , presented to the eye , or inspired into the soul , -by the well - proportioned statue of Minerva on her temple at Athens , -by the low ...
... sentiments , images , and associations kindred to those which would be awa- kened in the mind , presented to the eye , or inspired into the soul , -by the well - proportioned statue of Minerva on her temple at Athens , -by the low ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 119 - ... the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.
Seite 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.