The English Poets: Lessing, Rousseau: EssaysW. Scott, 1888 - 337 páginas |
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... become , in any sense of the word , a classic . I do not mean that that century has left us no illustrious names ... becoming so . No hedge of language , however thorny , no dragon - coil of centuries , will keep men away from these true ...
... become , in any sense of the word , a classic . I do not mean that that century has left us no illustrious names ... becoming so . No hedge of language , however thorny , no dragon - coil of centuries , will keep men away from these true ...
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... becomes a mere offence in the nostrils , for it takes a great deal of salt to keep scurrility sweet . Mr. Sibbald , in his Chronicle of Scottish Poetry , has admiringly preserved more than enough of it , and seems to find a sort of ...
... becomes a mere offence in the nostrils , for it takes a great deal of salt to keep scurrility sweet . Mr. Sibbald , in his Chronicle of Scottish Poetry , has admiringly preserved more than enough of it , and seems to find a sort of ...
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... become obsolete . * Edmund Bolton , in his Hypercritica , says , " The works of Sam Daniel contained somewhat a flat , but yet withal a very pure and copious English , and words as warrantable as any man's , and fitter , perhaps , for ...
... become obsolete . * Edmund Bolton , in his Hypercritica , says , " The works of Sam Daniel contained somewhat a flat , but yet withal a very pure and copious English , and words as warrantable as any man's , and fitter , perhaps , for ...
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... become visible only when the mirage of fantasy lifts them up and hangs them in an ideal atmosphere . As in the old fairy tales , the task which the age imposes on its poet is to weave its straw into a golden tissue ; and when every ...
... become visible only when the mirage of fantasy lifts them up and hangs them in an ideal atmosphere . As in the old fairy tales , the task which the age imposes on its poet is to weave its straw into a golden tissue ; and when every ...
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... becomes sensual . Every one of Spenser's senses was as exquisitely alive to the impressions of material , as every organ of his soul was to those of spiritual beauty . Accordingly , * Two of his eclogues , as I have said , are from ...
... becomes sensual . Every one of Spenser's senses was as exquisitely alive to the impressions of material , as every organ of his soul was to those of spiritual beauty . Accordingly , * Two of his eclogues , as I have said , are from ...
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artist beauty become Ben Jonson biography blank-verse called certainly character Châteaubriand Chaucer Coleridge conscious criticism Dante delight divine doth doubt eclogue Edited England English poet Ernest Rhys exquisite eyes Faery Queen fancy feeling French genius German gives Goethe Grasmere Greek Hamlet heart Herr Stahr ideal imagination inspired instinct judgment Keats kind language Latin learned Lessing Lessing's letters literary literature living look Lord Lord Houghton Lyrical Ballads Macbeth Masson matter meaning metrist Milton mind moral nature never original Paradise Lost passage passion perhaps Petrarch phrase play poems poet poetic poetry prose rhyme Rousseau says seems sense sentiment Shakespeare sometimes soul speak Spenser style sure sweet syllable sympathy taste tells temperament thing thought tragedy translation true truth verse Voltaire volume whole William Wordsworth words Wordsworth writing written wrote
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Página 112 - This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. BAN. This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Página 75 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet: The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall: The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call: The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Página 29 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peer?
Página 125 - Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change : Thy pyramids built up with newer might To me are nothing novel, nothing strange : They are but dressings of a former sight. Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire What thou dost foist upon us that is old, And rather make them born to our desire, Than think that we before have heard them told. Thy registers and thee I both defy, Not...
Página 168 - Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand.
Página 248 - And strength by limping sway disabled, And art made tongue-tied by authority...
Página 215 - The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure.
Página 289 - In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless...
Página 163 - Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half inclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute.
Página 191 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...