Lectures on English Poetry: To the Time of MiltonWhittaker, 1837 - 118 pàgines |
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Pàgina 10
... muse , and even the legends of ancient mythology furnished them with subjects . All was tinged with the religious and warlike enthusiasm of the times . Their characters were as devout as valiant , and their gallantry to the fair sex ...
... muse , and even the legends of ancient mythology furnished them with subjects . All was tinged with the religious and warlike enthusiasm of the times . Their characters were as devout as valiant , and their gallantry to the fair sex ...
Pàgina 11
... muse , the earliest of our national poets , who wove our newly formed language into the measures of verse , and rejecting the extravagances of the French romancers , wrote with a system and precision , and at the same time with a vigor ...
... muse , the earliest of our national poets , who wove our newly formed language into the measures of verse , and rejecting the extravagances of the French romancers , wrote with a system and precision , and at the same time with a vigor ...
Pàgina 20
... muse , and caught and forcibly depicted the outlines of character . His persons are well grouped ; they appear naturally assembled , and in their proper places . He has a propriety of sentiment , * See note at the end of the volume ...
... muse , and caught and forcibly depicted the outlines of character . His persons are well grouped ; they appear naturally assembled , and in their proper places . He has a propriety of sentiment , * See note at the end of the volume ...
Pàgina 47
... muse , nor disdained to pen a sportive epigram , or translate an ode of Catullus . His Music's Duel represents a contest between a lyrist and a nightingale for the palm of song ; and the poem , although overloaded with words , has much ...
... muse , nor disdained to pen a sportive epigram , or translate an ode of Catullus . His Music's Duel represents a contest between a lyrist and a nightingale for the palm of song ; and the poem , although overloaded with words , has much ...
Pàgina 66
... Muse , And call the vales , and bid them hither cast Their bells , and flow'rets of a thousand hues . Ye valleys low , where the mild whispers use Of shades , and wanton winds , and gushing brooks , On whose fresh lap the swart star ...
... Muse , And call the vales , and bid them hither cast Their bells , and flow'rets of a thousand hues . Ye valleys low , where the mild whispers use Of shades , and wanton winds , and gushing brooks , On whose fresh lap the swart star ...
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