Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Harper & Bros., 1860 - 324 sider |
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... glory , or even of highly advanced civilization . Dante , Petrarch , and Ariosto , in Italy ; Ercilla , in Spain ; Camoens , in Portugal ; as well as our own Shaks- peare , Spenser , and Milton ; flourished in periods far inferior to ...
... glory , or even of highly advanced civilization . Dante , Petrarch , and Ariosto , in Italy ; Ercilla , in Spain ; Camoens , in Portugal ; as well as our own Shaks- peare , Spenser , and Milton ; flourished in periods far inferior to ...
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... glory of the artist is consum- mated at once ; and while the enthusiasm of admira- tion settles down into calm delight , or spreads itself in patient and interested examination of particulars , the mind goes back through all the ...
... glory of the artist is consum- mated at once ; and while the enthusiasm of admira- tion settles down into calm delight , or spreads itself in patient and interested examination of particulars , the mind goes back through all the ...
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... glory Noontide's distant haze was cast , And the hills of Turkish story Teem'd with visions of the past . " What could a painter do with this ? Assuredly he might produce a landscape as superb as ever ema- nated , in colours of this ...
... glory Noontide's distant haze was cast , And the hills of Turkish story Teem'd with visions of the past . " What could a painter do with this ? Assuredly he might produce a landscape as superb as ever ema- nated , in colours of this ...
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... 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 upon the scene . His " rich ...
... 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 upon the scene . His " rich ...
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... glory , " or fled " to the mountains of the Hun , " while Danube , from " the Fountain of the Thorn , " rolled purple to the deep , bearing along with ais overcharged current the turbaned corpses of the ` nvaders back into the bowels of ...
... glory , " or fled " to the mountains of the Hun , " while Danube , from " the Fountain of the Thorn , " rolled purple to the deep , bearing along with ais overcharged current the turbaned corpses of the ` nvaders back into the bowels of ...
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