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... POETRY . Specimens of the British Poets ; with Biographical and Critical Notices , and an Essay on English Poetry . By THOMAS CAMPBELL ... 272 286 The Dramatic Works of John Ford ; with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes . By HENRY ...
... POETRY . Specimens of the British Poets ; with Biographical and Critical Notices , and an Essay on English Poetry . By THOMAS CAMPBELL ... 272 286 The Dramatic Works of John Ford ; with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes . By HENRY ...
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... poet does for his readers , however , by his original similes and metaphors , in these high- er cases , even the dullest ... poetry , which consist entirely in the expression of affecting senti- ments , the question would be speedily de ...
... poet does for his readers , however , by his original similes and metaphors , in these high- er cases , even the dullest ... poetry , which consist entirely in the expression of affecting senti- ments , the question would be speedily de ...
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... Poetry ; and the first poetry consists in the rapturous description of striking objects in na- ture , or of the actions and exploits that are then thought of the greatest importance . There is little reflection - no nice development of ...
... Poetry ; and the first poetry consists in the rapturous description of striking objects in na- ture , or of the actions and exploits that are then thought of the greatest importance . There is little reflection - no nice development of ...
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... poetry . The intercourse with distant coun- tries being difficult and dangerous , the legends of the traveller were naturally invested with more than the modern allowance of the mar- vellous . The smallness of the civilized states ...
... poetry . The intercourse with distant coun- tries being difficult and dangerous , the legends of the traveller were naturally invested with more than the modern allowance of the mar- vellous . The smallness of the civilized states ...
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... poetry , and the arts of imagina- tion . The poetry of the Romans , however , derived this advantage from the lateness of its origin , that it was enriched by all that knowledge of the human heart , and those habits of reflection ...
... poetry , and the arts of imagina- tion . The poetry of the Romans , however , derived this advantage from the lateness of its origin , that it was enriched by all that knowledge of the human heart , and those habits of reflection ...
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Page 307 - Would he were fatter ! But I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Page 335 - Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem. To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonie Lark, companion meet ! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east.
Page 307 - This was the noblest Roman of them all : All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man!
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Page 309 - Romeo ; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.
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