Lectures on English Poetry: To the Time of MiltonWhittaker, 1837 - 118 Seiten |
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... lines . The impressions of the uneducated are strong , and their feelings soon excited by the gloomy and sublime . Familiar with the rough accidents of life , their imagination seizes upon whatever * Such is the power that has been ...
... lines . The impressions of the uneducated are strong , and their feelings soon excited by the gloomy and sublime . Familiar with the rough accidents of life , their imagination seizes upon whatever * Such is the power that has been ...
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... lines : Richard the Third , Act 3 , Seene 1 . But the old Vice Acts old Iniquity , and in the fit Of mimicry , gets th ' opinion of a wit . + See Strutt's Sports and Pastimes of the People of England . careful and difficult study , and ...
... lines : Richard the Third , Act 3 , Seene 1 . But the old Vice Acts old Iniquity , and in the fit Of mimicry , gets th ' opinion of a wit . + See Strutt's Sports and Pastimes of the People of England . careful and difficult study , and ...
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... The sonnet is perhaps the most difficult style of poetical composition . Being restricted to the exact number of fourteen lines , there is to epitomize into that narrow compass a complete and dignified image or reflection , 37.
... The sonnet is perhaps the most difficult style of poetical composition . Being restricted to the exact number of fourteen lines , there is to epitomize into that narrow compass a complete and dignified image or reflection , 37.
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... lines are faulty and inharmonious , and stand the trial of the finger better than that of the ear . * " He affects , " says Dryden , " the metaphysics , not only in his satires , but in his amorous verses , where nature only should ...
... lines are faulty and inharmonious , and stand the trial of the finger better than that of the ear . * " He affects , " says Dryden , " the metaphysics , not only in his satires , but in his amorous verses , where nature only should ...
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... lines , and divided into thirty parts or songs . If he is often spirited and fluent , he is as often tame and monotonous . At times he presents us with an animated and highly colored picture , and again his descriptions degenerate to ...
... lines , and divided into thirty parts or songs . If he is often spirited and fluent , he is as often tame and monotonous . At times he presents us with an animated and highly colored picture , and again his descriptions degenerate to ...
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Æneid allusion amidst angels appear battle beautiful Ben Johnson bird bold breath bright Canterbury Tales celebrated characters Chaucer composed composition Comus conceit court dark deep delight dignity doth eloquence English English poetry eternal expression fair fancy feelings flowers fugitive verses gallantry genius Geoffrey Chaucer GILES FLETCHER gloomy glowing gold happy heart heaven heroes hire human images imagination Inner Temple inspiration John of Gaunt King language learning legends light literature lived lofty looked Lord mankind mighty Milton mind minstrels moral muse narration nature night Paradise Lost passions Petrarch poem poet poetical poetry popular proud quaint refined reign religious rendered rhymes rise romance rose rude Saint Brandon sang Satan Saxon sentiment Shakspeare shew songs sonnets soul Spenser spirit stream sublime sustained sweet Temple thee tree truth unto verse virtues wanting wife of Bath wild wings Wynkyn de Worde zeal