Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Harper & Bros., 1860 - 324 sider |
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Side 15
... 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 ...
Side 29
... 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 ...
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... 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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Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c: Delivered at the Royal ... James Montgomery Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1836 |
Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c: Delivered at the Royal ... James Montgomery Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1840 |
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