Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey InstitutionThomas Dobson and Son, at the Stone house, no. 41, South Second Street. William Fry, printer., 1818 - 331 sidor |
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... writer has more or less of rythmical adaptation , except poets , who , when deprived of the regular mechanism of verse , seem to have no principle of modulation left in their writings . An excuse might be made for rhyme in the same ...
... writer has more or less of rythmical adaptation , except poets , who , when deprived of the regular mechanism of verse , seem to have no principle of modulation left in their writings . An excuse might be made for rhyme in the same ...
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... writer's genius , though not " dipped in dews of Castalie , " was baptised with the Holy Spirit and with fire ! The pictures in this book are no small part of it . If the con- finement of Philoctetes in the island of Lemnos was a ...
... writer's genius , though not " dipped in dews of Castalie , " was baptised with the Holy Spirit and with fire ! The pictures in this book are no small part of it . If the con- finement of Philoctetes in the island of Lemnos was a ...
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... want of elasticity and motion . The story does not " give an echo to the seat where love is throned . " The heart does not answer of itself like a chord in music . The fancy does not run on before the writer with ON POETRY IN GENERAL 29.
... want of elasticity and motion . The story does not " give an echo to the seat where love is throned . " The heart does not answer of itself like a chord in music . The fancy does not run on before the writer with ON POETRY IN GENERAL 29.
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... writer with breathless expectation , but is dragged along with an infinite number of pins and wheels , like those with which the Lilliputians dragged Gulliver pinioned to the royal palace . Sir Charles Grandison is a coxcomb . What sort ...
... writer with breathless expectation , but is dragged along with an infinite number of pins and wheels , like those with which the Lilliputians dragged Gulliver pinioned to the royal palace . Sir Charles Grandison is a coxcomb . What sort ...
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... writers , because their images , though fine in themselves , are not to the purpose , and do not carry on the argument . The French poetry wants the forms of the ima- gination . It is didactic more than dramatic . And some of our own ...
... writers , because their images , though fine in themselves , are not to the purpose , and do not carry on the argument . The French poetry wants the forms of the ima- gination . It is didactic more than dramatic . And some of our own ...
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution William Hazlitt Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1818 |
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Sida 326 - Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted — ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder A dreary sea now flows between ; — But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Sida 148 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Sida 143 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Sida 227 - Unanxious for ourselves; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought, Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. And why? because he thinks himself immortal. All men think all men mortal, but themselves; Themselves, when some alarming shock of fate Strikes thro...
Sida 226 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Sida 326 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Sida 264 - But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tarn maun ride ; That hour, o...
Sida 130 - Others more mild, Retreated in a silent valley, sing With notes angelical to many a harp Their own heroic deeds and hapless fall By doom of battle ; and complain that fate ' Free virtue should enthrall to force or chance.
Sida 114 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters...
Sida 329 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind ; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be ; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering ; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.