The English Poets: Lessing, Rousseau: EssaysW. Scott, 1888 - 337 páginas |
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... language alive , and not the language that buoys up the poem . The revival of letters , as it is called , was at first the revival of ancient letters , which , while it made men pedants , could do very little toward making them poets ...
... language alive , and not the language that buoys up the poem . The revival of letters , as it is called , was at first the revival of ancient letters , which , while it made men pedants , could do very little toward making them poets ...
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... language , however thorny , no dragon - coil of centuries , will keep men away from these true apples of the Hesperides if once they have caught sight or scent of them . If poems die , it is because there was never true life in them ...
... language , however thorny , no dragon - coil of centuries , will keep men away from these true apples of the Hesperides if once they have caught sight or scent of them . If poems die , it is because there was never true life in them ...
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... language . Let us devoutly hope they did , for it would be pleasant to be grateful to them for something . But I fear it was not so , for only genius can do that ; and Sternhold and Hopkins are inspired men in comparison with them . For ...
... language . Let us devoutly hope they did , for it would be pleasant to be grateful to them for something . But I fear it was not so , for only genius can do that ; and Sternhold and Hopkins are inspired men in comparison with them . For ...
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... language had run off the track . He seems to have been half conscious of it himself , and there is a gleam of mischief in what he writes to Harvey : " I like your late English hexameter so exceedingly well that I also enure my pen ...
... language had run off the track . He seems to have been half conscious of it himself , and there is a gleam of mischief in what he writes to Harvey : " I like your late English hexameter so exceedingly well that I also enure my pen ...
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... language how to soar and sing , and to give a fuller sail to English verse . " " One of the most striking facts in our literary history is the pre - eminence at once so frankly and unanimously conceded to Spenser by his contemporaries ...
... language how to soar and sing , and to give a fuller sail to English verse . " " One of the most striking facts in our literary history is the pre - eminence at once so frankly and unanimously conceded to Spenser by his contemporaries ...
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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...