Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Harper & Bros., 1860 - 324 sider |
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... passage itself to make the spectator understand , that by the former were meant " the ravening brood of Fate , " that fol- * Chaucer's description of " Danger " in the Romaunt of the Rose is exceedingly spirited , and equally ...
... passage itself to make the spectator understand , that by the former were meant " the ravening brood of Fate , " that fol- * Chaucer's description of " Danger " in the Romaunt of the Rose is exceedingly spirited , and equally ...
Side 47
... passage , or the full organ harmony of period , the manly English , I had almost said his own English English , so purely , so radically vernacular it is , - which distinguishes the style of Dryden ; I dwell not on these , though , in ...
... passage , or the full organ harmony of period , the manly English , I had almost said his own English English , so purely , so radically vernacular it is , - which distinguishes the style of Dryden ; I dwell not on these , though , in ...
Side 48
... passage to Green- wich , they ordered the watermen to let fall their oars more gently ; and then , every one favouring his own curiosity with a strict silence , it was not long ere they perceived the air breaking about them , like the ...
... passage to Green- wich , they ordered the watermen to let fall their oars more gently ; and then , every one favouring his own curiosity with a strict silence , it was not long ere they perceived the air breaking about them , like the ...
Side 57
... passage from his " Tour to the Western Islands , " on occasion of his arrival at Icolmkill , the ancient Iona : - " We are now treading that illustrious island , which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions , whence savage ...
... passage from his " Tour to the Western Islands , " on occasion of his arrival at Icolmkill , the ancient Iona : - " We are now treading that illustrious island , which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions , whence savage ...
Side 76
... passage referring to the storm ( in which those won- derful lines descriptive of the lightning might have been struck out by the flash itself ) , there is scarcely a phrase which could not have been employed in the humblest prose record ...
... passage referring to the storm ( in which those won- derful lines descriptive of the lightning might have been struck out by the flash itself ) , there is scarcely a phrase which could not have been employed in the humblest prose record ...
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