Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831 ; Complete in One VolumeHarper, 1838 - 324 páginas |
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... taste ; yet in their re- spective countries their great poems have not since been equalled , nor is it probable that they will here after be surpassed by any of their successors . To the peculiar good fortune which , in their re- 12 THE ...
... taste ; yet in their re- spective countries their great poems have not since been equalled , nor is it probable that they will here after be surpassed by any of their successors . To the peculiar good fortune which , in their re- 12 THE ...
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... taste for elegant and magnificent books , - though the latter factitious taste is nearly obsolete , and volumes of compendious literature are now the rage , yet must authors be for ever excluded from the hope of reaping equal pecuniary ...
... taste for elegant and magnificent books , - though the latter factitious taste is nearly obsolete , and volumes of compendious literature are now the rage , yet must authors be for ever excluded from the hope of reaping equal pecuniary ...
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... taste or not , it will hardly be disputed that Xenophon and Thucydides have failed to command the attention which ( not without a cause lying deep in our very nature ) has been won by Anacreon and Horace . But even on its own ground ...
... taste or not , it will hardly be disputed that Xenophon and Thucydides have failed to command the attention which ( not without a cause lying deep in our very nature ) has been won by Anacreon and Horace . But even on its own ground ...
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... taste , elegance , sublimity , -all that could show the immortality of man even in his mortal works , but dedicated to false gods , to idols , -the wisest among them not knowing that an idol , whe- ther ideal or material , the idol of ...
... taste , elegance , sublimity , -all that could show the immortality of man even in his mortal works , but dedicated to false gods , to idols , -the wisest among them not knowing that an idol , whe- ther ideal or material , the idol of ...
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... of fine nerve and pure taste can conceive in the silence of thought , while he looks upon the page that records them . Do not the harmonies of Shak- speare himself ring more melodiously in remem- brance than they D2 WHAT IS POETICAL . 41.
... of fine nerve and pure taste can conceive in the silence of thought , while he looks upon the page that records them . Do not the harmonies of Shak- speare himself ring more melodiously in remem- brance than they D2 WHAT IS POETICAL . 41.
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 119 - ... the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.
Página 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.