Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices, |
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Side 90
... could in any degree feel the delicacy of this old ballad , durst profane its
intrinsic beauty . All attempts to modernize the elder poets have ever failed more
or less . Dryden has often smoothed the lines of Chaucer , while he lopped or
distorted ...
... could in any degree feel the delicacy of this old ballad , durst profane its
intrinsic beauty . All attempts to modernize the elder poets have ever failed more
or less . Dryden has often smoothed the lines of Chaucer , while he lopped or
distorted ...
Side 113
His wit in early life was as agreeable to the King as his talents for business were
afterwards useful ; yet he lived to feel and declare , “ that all is vanity and vexation
of spirit . ” His important services to the state abroad could not save him from ...
His wit in early life was as agreeable to the King as his talents for business were
afterwards useful ; yet he lived to feel and declare , “ that all is vanity and vexation
of spirit . ” His important services to the state abroad could not save him from ...
Side 142
Sydney is the connecting link between the knight of chivalry and the modern
soldier and gentleman , - one of those rare and happy persons who come into the
world once in a century to unite the suffrages of mankind in one spontaneous feel
* ...
Sydney is the connecting link between the knight of chivalry and the modern
soldier and gentleman , - one of those rare and happy persons who come into the
world once in a century to unite the suffrages of mankind in one spontaneous feel
* ...
Side 177
... for if the preternatural characters he describes could be supposed to exist ,
they would speak , and feel , and act , as he makes them . He had only to think of
any thing in order to become that thing , with all the circumstances belonging to it
.
... for if the preternatural characters he describes could be supposed to exist ,
they would speak , and feel , and act , as he makes them . He had only to think of
any thing in order to become that thing , with all the circumstances belonging to it
.
Side 178
How fine to make Cleopatra have this consciousness of her own character , and
to make her feel that it is this for which Antony is in love with her ! She says , after
the battle of Actium , when Antony has resolved to risk another fight , It is my birth
...
How fine to make Cleopatra have this consciousness of her own character , and
to make her feel that it is this for which Antony is in love with her ! She says , after
the battle of Actium , when Antony has resolved to risk another fight , It is my birth
...
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| Titel | Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices, |
| Forfatter | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) |
| Redaktør | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) |
| Bidragyder | Oliver and Boyd (Edinburgh, Scotland) |
| Udgiver | Oliver & Boyd, 1828 |
| Oprindeligt fra | Oxford University |
| Digitaliseret | 24. mar 2006 |
| Længde | 560 sider |
| Eksporter henvisning | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |