English Men of Letters: Scott by Richard H. Hutton, 1899. Robert Burns, by Principal Shairp, new ed. 1895; Coleridge, by H.D. Traill, 1898Macmillan and Company, 1899 |
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Página 46
... Lord and Lady Dalkeith , but especially the latter , had inspired him . It was certainly this beautiful framework which assured the immediate success and permanent charm of the poem ; and the immediate success was for that day something ...
... Lord and Lady Dalkeith , but especially the latter , had inspired him . It was certainly this beautiful framework which assured the immediate success and permanent charm of the poem ; and the immediate success was for that day something ...
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... Lord of the Isles Constable paid Scott 1500 guineas . If we ask ourselves to what this vast popularity of Scott's poems , and especially of the earlier of them ( for , as often happens , he was better remunerated for his later and much ...
... Lord of the Isles Constable paid Scott 1500 guineas . If we ask ourselves to what this vast popularity of Scott's poems , and especially of the earlier of them ( for , as often happens , he was better remunerated for his later and much ...
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... Lord of the Isles , and still more in The Bridal of Triermain , his charm disappears . It is in painting those moods and exploits , in relation to which Scott shares most completely the feelings of ordinary men , but experiences them ...
... Lord of the Isles , and still more in The Bridal of Triermain , his charm disappears . It is in painting those moods and exploits , in relation to which Scott shares most completely the feelings of ordinary men , but experiences them ...
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... Lord of the Isles , and this is why The Lay and Marmion seem so much superior as poems to the others . They lean less on the interest of mere incident , more on that of romantic feeling and the great social and historic features of the ...
... Lord of the Isles , and this is why The Lay and Marmion seem so much superior as poems to the others . They lean less on the interest of mere incident , more on that of romantic feeling and the great social and historic features of the ...
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... Lord Kinnedder — a dis- tinction which he did not survive for many months — was a good classic , a man of fine , or , as some of his com- panions thought , of almost superfine taste . The style apparently for which he had credit must ...
... Lord Kinnedder — a dis- tinction which he did not survive for many months — was a good classic , a man of fine , or , as some of his com- panions thought , of almost superfine taste . The style apparently for which he had credit must ...
Términos y frases comunes
Abbotsford acquaintance admiration afterwards Allan Cunningham appeared auld Ayrshire ballad Ballantyne beautiful Biographia Literaria brother Burns Burns's called character Charles Lamb Christabel Coleridge Coleridge's course criticism death delight doubt Dugald Stewart Dumfries Edinburgh edition Ellisland English Essays expression F. W. H. MYERS farm father feeling genius habit heart honour hope human humour imagination James Ballantyne John Ballantyne JOHN MORLEY Lady least lectures less letter literary lived Lockhart London look Lord Marmion Mauchline mind months moral nature never once painful passed passion perhaps period person poems poet poet's poetic poetry political pride Quincey Redgauntlet remarkable romantic Scotch Scotland Scott Scottish seems seen Shanter Sir Walter song soul Southey spirit story strong things thou thought tion verse volume whole wife wonderful words Wordsworth writing written wrote young youth
Pasajes populares
Página 43 - The author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines...
Página 85 - And mony a hill between ; But, day and night, my fancy's flight Is ever wi' my Jean. I see her in the dewy flowers, I see her sweet and fair : I hear her in the tunefu...
Página 79 - A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet, no relief, In word, or sigh, or tear— 0 Lady!
Página 163 - Wi" thee to reign, wi' thee to reign, The brightest jewel in my crown Wad be my queen, wad be my queen.
Página 99 - O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi...
Página 43 - On awaking he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his pen, ink, and paper, instantly and eagerly wrote down the lines that are here preserved. At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock...
Página 125 - Had we never loved so kindly, ' Had we never loved so blindly, ' Never met or never parted, ' We had ne'er been broken•hearted.
Página 91 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
Página 81 - There was a time when, though my path was rough, This joy within me dallied with distress, And all misfortunes were but as the stuff Whence Fancy made me dreams of happiness : For hope grew round me, like the twining vine, And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed mine.
Página 208 - Come back into memory, like as thou wert in the day-spring of thy fancies, with hope like a fiery column before thee — the dark pillar not yet turned — Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Logician, Metaphysician, Bard ! — How have I seen the casual passer through the Cloisters stand still, entranced with admiration (while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula), to hear thee unfold, in thy deep and sweet intonations, the mysteries of Jamblichus, or Plotinus...