Lectures on Poetry and General Literature: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Longman, 1833 - 394 páginas |
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... disclaiming any personal application of the foregoing apologue , the writer of the following strictures believes that he could not more fitly have introduced them to the liberal and enlightened 2 NO . 1 . THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY .
... disclaiming any personal application of the foregoing apologue , the writer of the following strictures believes that he could not more fitly have introduced them to the liberal and enlightened 2 NO . 1 . THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY .
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... writers of verse , renowned in their generation , of whom there are not fifty whose compositions rise to the dig- nity of true poetry ; and of these there are scarcely ten who are familiarly known by their works at this day . The art of ...
... writers of verse , renowned in their generation , of whom there are not fifty whose compositions rise to the dig- nity of true poetry ; and of these there are scarcely ten who are familiarly known by their works at this day . The art of ...
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... writers , ―himself a poet , —who had proved all the pangs of heart - sickness from hope deferred , and hope disappointed , which he has so admirably expressed in a couplet of sterling English , excelling even the celebrated original in ...
... writers , ―himself a poet , —who had proved all the pangs of heart - sickness from hope deferred , and hope disappointed , which he has so admirably expressed in a couplet of sterling English , excelling even the celebrated original in ...
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... writer's lucubrations bring profit to his bookseller , the bookseller will be liberal in remunerating his talents , - for the strongest reason in the world , to secure his own interest . That the market - price of the greatest works of ...
... writer's lucubrations bring profit to his bookseller , the bookseller will be liberal in remunerating his talents , - for the strongest reason in the world , to secure his own interest . That the market - price of the greatest works of ...
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... writers in prose , because , it has been said , he could not excel Homer in verse , and at the head of one or the other species of literature he had determined to be ; -thus acknowledging the pre - eminence of that which he did not ...
... writers in prose , because , it has been said , he could not excel Homer in verse , and at the head of one or the other species of literature he had determined to be ; -thus acknowledging the pre - eminence of that which he did not ...
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Lectures on Poetry and General Literature: Delivered at the Royal ... James Montgomery Visualização completa - 1833 |
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3d Edit admiration Æneid affections ancient Author beauty blank verse cadence character circumstances colour composition death delight diction Dryden earth eloquence employed English Engravings equally excellence exquisite Faerie Queene fancy Fcap feel Foolscap 8vo genius glory Greece Greek hand harmony heart heaven Henry Kirke White hieroglyphics Homer honour human ideas Iliad images imagination invention Joanna Baillie kind labours Lamech language latter learning less lines literature living Lord Lord Byron LUCY AIKIN ment metre Milton mind modern moral nations nature never original painting Paradise Lost passage passions peculiar perfect perpetual Pisistratus Plates pleonasm poem poet poetical poetry present prose reader rhyme ROBERT SOUTHEY Roman scarcely scene sentiments song soul sound Spenserian stanza spirit splendour stanzas style sublime syllables taste thee theme things thou thought tion tongue truth verse vols whole words writing