Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative of Those First Requisites of Their Art; with Markings of the Best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in Answer to the Question, "What is Poetry?"Wiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 Seiten |
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... Robert Burns , and we do not doubt that you will agree with us ; for , in addition to all that may be contained in those sources of useful and entertaining knowledge , he had been taught to read , not only in the Spelling Book , and ...
... Robert Burns , and we do not doubt that you will agree with us ; for , in addition to all that may be contained in those sources of useful and entertaining knowledge , he had been taught to read , not only in the Spelling Book , and ...
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... Robert hardest of them all . At fifteen he was the principal laborer on the farm , and relieved his father from holding the plough . Two years before he had as- sisted in thrashing the crop of corn . The two noble brothers saw with ...
... Robert hardest of them all . At fifteen he was the principal laborer on the farm , and relieved his father from holding the plough . Two years before he had as- sisted in thrashing the crop of corn . The two noble brothers saw with ...
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... Robert read all these books with an avidity and industry scarcely to be equalled . My father had been a subscriber to Stackhouse's History of the Bible . From this Robert collected a competent knowledge of ancient history ; for no book ...
... Robert read all these books with an avidity and industry scarcely to be equalled . My father had been a subscriber to Stackhouse's History of the Bible . From this Robert collected a competent knowledge of ancient history ; for no book ...
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... Robert himself says that in childhood he was by no means a favorite with anybody - but he must have been mistaken ; and " the stubborn sturdy something in his dis- position " hindered him from seeing how much he was loved . The tutor ...
... Robert himself says that in childhood he was by no means a favorite with anybody - but he must have been mistaken ; and " the stubborn sturdy something in his dis- position " hindered him from seeing how much he was loved . The tutor ...
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... Robert Burns is now a man . Other seven years of the same kind of life as at Mount Oliphant , he enjoys and suffers at Lochlea . It is sad to think that his boyhood should have been so heavily burthened ; but we look with no such ...
... Robert Burns is now a man . Other seven years of the same kind of life as at Mount Oliphant , he enjoys and suffers at Lochlea . It is sad to think that his boyhood should have been so heavily burthened ; but we look with no such ...
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auld bard Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson bless bonnie breath Burns's called character charm Chaucer dear death delight divine doth dream Dumfries earth Ellisland eyes Faerie Queene fair fairy fancy fear feeling felt flowers frae gauger genius hand happy hath head hear heard heart heaven Hector Macneil hour human imagination inspired knew labor lady light live look Lycidas Macbeth Mauchline melancholy Milton mind mirth moral morning Mossgiel muse nature never noble o'er passage passion perhaps pity pleasure poem poet poet's poetical poetry poor pride rhyme Robert Burns round Scotland Scottish Shakspeare Shanter sing sleep song soul Spenser spirit stanza sugh sweet Sycorax Tamburlaine tears tell thee things Thomson thou art thought tion TITANIA truth verse voice Whyles wife William Burnes wind witch wood words young youth