Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831 ; Complete in One VolumeHarper, 1838 - 324 sider |
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... strains , both vocal and instrumental , may be not unworthily ranked with the first order of poets . To be an accomplished performer , however , though it requires talent . and tact of a peculiar kind , no more implies the genius to ...
... strains , both vocal and instrumental , may be not unworthily ranked with the first order of poets . To be an accomplished performer , however , though it requires talent . and tact of a peculiar kind , no more implies the genius to ...
Side 16
... strains of English 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 ...
... strains of English 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 ...
Side 24
... strains of music ; thus , after the first sight , some masterpiece of painting ; and frequently , far more frequently than either of these , after the first reading , will lines , and phrases , and sentiments of poetry ring in the ...
... strains of music ; thus , after the first sight , some masterpiece of painting ; and frequently , far more frequently than either of these , after the first reading , will lines , and phrases , and sentiments of poetry ring in the ...
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... strain ; wherein , having already sung what each has pictured , she thus reveals that secret of the sufferer's breaking heart , which neither of them could intimate by any visible sign . But we must return to the swoon of the dying man ...
... strain ; wherein , having already sung what each has pictured , she thus reveals that secret of the sufferer's breaking heart , which neither of them could intimate by any visible sign . But we must return to the swoon of the dying man ...
Side 41
... strain that first transported him , after the novelty and effervescence are past , he will find his own fancy , his own affections , his own intelligence , exercised anew , and not seldom in a new way , with the theme and its ...
... strain that first transported him , after the novelty and effervescence are past , he will find his own fancy , his own affections , his own intelligence , exercised anew , and not seldom in a new way , with the theme and its ...
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Side 229 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Side 114 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark! now I hear them, — ding-dong, bell.
Side 231 - Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up : he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion ; who shall rouse him up ? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come ; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Side 94 - Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings, Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue Thy lingering, or with one stroke of this dart Strange horror seize thee, and pangs unfelt before.
Side 86 - As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Side 78 - And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them ; there remained not so much as one of them.
Side 77 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their...
Side 227 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice ; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech : for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt : 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Side 119 - ... the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.
Side 76 - Lear. Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.