Lectures on Poetry and General Literature: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Longman, 1833 - 394 páginas |
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... hand that made us is divine . " The power of being a poet in this sense , is a power from Heaven ; wherein it consists , I know not ; but this I do know , that there never existed a poet of the highest order , who either learned his art ...
... hand that made us is divine . " The power of being a poet in this sense , is a power from Heaven ; wherein it consists , I know not ; but this I do know , that there never existed a poet of the highest order , who either learned his art ...
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... hand , poets and declaimers have frequently had no ear at all for music . Pope had none ; Garrick had none ; yet in harmonious rhythmical composition , the poet to this hour is un- excelled : nor was the actor less perfect in managing ...
... hand , poets and declaimers have frequently had no ear at all for music . Pope had none ; Garrick had none ; yet in harmonious rhythmical composition , the poet to this hour is un- excelled : nor was the actor less perfect in managing ...
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... hand . A bird's - eye prospect from a height overlooking a majestic river , studded with islands , " flashing , glit- tering in the sun ; " the " gorgeous towers " of an imperial city ; the verdure of woods on every side ; over all , a ...
... hand . A bird's - eye prospect from a height overlooking a majestic river , studded with islands , " flashing , glit- tering in the sun ; " the " gorgeous towers " of an imperial city ; the verdure of woods on every side ; over all , a ...
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... hand . 66 After shedding the glory of sunshine on the " " waves and islands of the river , the green luxuri- ance of the champaign , and the " gorgeous towers " of the metropolis , in three words , he lets in the daylight of past ages ...
... hand . 66 After shedding the glory of sunshine on the " " waves and islands of the river , the green luxuri- ance of the champaign , and the " gorgeous towers " of the metropolis , in three words , he lets in the daylight of past ages ...
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... hand , a statue steps out of this en- chanted circle , and looks as though it had grown out of the marble in the course of nature , without the aid of hands ; then indeed does the artist en- rich the beholder with one of the rarest ...
... hand , a statue steps out of this en- chanted circle , and looks as though it had grown out of the marble in the course of nature , without the aid of hands ; then indeed does the artist en- rich the beholder with one of the rarest ...
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admiration Æneid affections amidst ancient awaken beauty blank verse character circumstances colour composition death delight diction dwell earth Egyptians eloquence employed English epic poetry equal excellence exquisite Faerie Queene fancy feel genius glory Greece Greek hand harmony heart heaven Henry Kirke White hieroglyphics Homer honour human ideas Iliad images imagination ingulph invention kind labours language latter learning less lines literature living Lord Lord Byron memory ment Milton mind mnemonics modern moral nations nature never once original painting Paradise Lost passions peculiar perfect perpetual Philip of Macedon Pisistratus poem poet poetical poetry present prose reader rhyme Robert Burns Roman scarcely scene sculpture sentiments song soul sound spirit splendour stanzas strains style sublime syllables taste thee theme things thou thought thousand tion touch truth uncon unto verse Virgil whole words writing
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