Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Harper & brothers, 1836 - 324 páginas |
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... Verse and Prose - Characteristics of Prose and Verse - Jeremy Taylor - Hebrew Poetry - Greek and Latin Prosody - Modern Metres and Forms of Verse - The Spenserian Stanza and the Sonnet 168 LECTURE IV . THE DICTION OF POETRY ...
... Verse and Prose - Characteristics of Prose and Verse - Jeremy Taylor - Hebrew Poetry - Greek and Latin Prosody - Modern Metres and Forms of Verse - The Spenserian Stanza and the Sonnet 168 LECTURE IV . THE DICTION OF POETRY ...
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... verse , renowned in their generation , of whom there are not fifty whose compositions rise to the dignity of true poetry ; and of these there are scarcely ten who are familiarly known by their works at this day . The art of constructing ...
... verse , renowned in their generation , of whom there are not fifty whose compositions rise to the dignity of true poetry ; and of these there are scarcely ten who are familiarly known by their works at this day . The art of constructing ...
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... verse alone redeems the whole from being plain prose in the first six lines ; but thenceforward it rises through every clause in energy and grandeur , till the reader feels himself carried away by the im- petuosity of that " adventurous ...
... verse alone redeems the whole from being plain prose in the first six lines ; but thenceforward it rises through every clause in energy and grandeur , till the reader feels himself carried away by the im- petuosity of that " adventurous ...
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... Verse ! " exclaims the greatest of our poets ( himself a musician , and never more a poet than when he chants the praises of the sister art , as he does in a hundred passages , ) — " Blest pair of Syrens , Voice and Verse ! Wed your ...
... Verse ! " exclaims the greatest of our poets ( himself a musician , and never more a poet than when he chants the praises of the sister art , as he does in a hundred passages , ) — " Blest pair of Syrens , Voice and Verse ! Wed your ...
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... verse may be fitted to strains of music worthy of them , we have examples abundant in the present day , from the songs of Robert Burns to the melodies of Thomas Moore . Yet something must be conceded occasionally on the part of the ...
... verse may be fitted to strains of music worthy of them , we have examples abundant in the present day , from the songs of Robert Burns to the melodies of Thomas Moore . Yet something must be conceded occasionally on the part of the ...
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