Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey InstitutionTaylor and Hessey, 1818 - 331 sidor |
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... writer has more or less of rhythmical 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 rhythmical 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 66 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 confinement of Philoctetes in the island of Lemnos was a subject ...
... writer's genius , though not 66 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 confinement of Philoctetes in the island of Lemnos was a subject ...
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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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Sida 139 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Sida 138 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face and you'll forget 'em all.
Sida 220 - 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 147 - ... In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half -hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring...
Sida 124 - 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 321 - 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.
Sida 120 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Sida 128 - Our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain; then disappear'd. They looking back all th...
Sida 141 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.
Sida 123 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.