Lectures on English Poetry: To the Time of MiltonWhittaker, 1837 - 118 pàgines |
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Pàgina 22
... cold and unproductive . reasons where he should paint , he gives a moral instead of an image , he is copious where he should be impassioned and concise , while , in his eagerness for illustration , he hurries off to legends that have ...
... cold and unproductive . reasons where he should paint , he gives a moral instead of an image , he is copious where he should be impassioned and concise , while , in his eagerness for illustration , he hurries off to legends that have ...
Pàgina 35
... cold darkness of a cavern . It is here that enchanters breathe their incan- tations , where the spell is muttered and the mystery performed , where the knight and the maiden are encompassed by wiles and defended by talismans , until the ...
... cold darkness of a cavern . It is here that enchanters breathe their incan- tations , where the spell is muttered and the mystery performed , where the knight and the maiden are encompassed by wiles and defended by talismans , until the ...
Pàgina 63
... cold , the dialogue is too constrained and argumentative ; it has the full body of verse , but it wants the ease of conversation - it is too didactic . But it enshrines gorgeous and elaborate imagery , and if it be lofty where we had ...
... cold , the dialogue is too constrained and argumentative ; it has the full body of verse , but it wants the ease of conversation - it is too didactic . But it enshrines gorgeous and elaborate imagery , and if it be lofty where we had ...
Pàgina 66
... cold compliment infused into the poem , no quaint and fanciless display of elegiac sweetness ; but it speaks the natural feeling of a susceptible mind unburdening its grief , and finding in the tranquillity of the outward world scenes ...
... cold compliment infused into the poem , no quaint and fanciless display of elegiac sweetness ; but it speaks the natural feeling of a susceptible mind unburdening its grief , and finding in the tranquillity of the outward world scenes ...
Pàgina 73
... cold : Encourag'd at the sight of thee , To the cheek color comes , and firmness to the knee . XVI . When , Goddess ! thou lift'st up thy waken'd head Out of the morning's purple bed , Thy choir of birds about thee play , And all the ...
... cold : Encourag'd at the sight of thee , To the cheek color comes , and firmness to the knee . XVI . When , Goddess ! thou lift'st up thy waken'd head Out of the morning's purple bed , Thy choir of birds about thee play , And all the ...
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