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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... POETRY AND BORDER MINSTRELSY 36 CHAPTER V. SCOTT'S MATURER POEMS 44 CHAPTER VI . COMPANIONS AND FRIENDS 60 CHAPTER VII . FIRST COUNTRY HOMES 63 CHAPTER VIII . REMOVAL TO ABBOTSFORD , AND LIFE THERE 75 COLLEGE LIBRARY BY RICHARD H ...
... POETRY AND BORDER MINSTRELSY 36 CHAPTER V. SCOTT'S MATURER POEMS 44 CHAPTER VI . COMPANIONS AND FRIENDS 60 CHAPTER VII . FIRST COUNTRY HOMES 63 CHAPTER VIII . REMOVAL TO ABBOTSFORD , AND LIFE THERE 75 COLLEGE LIBRARY BY RICHARD H ...
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... poetry and art which could not but have both deeply impressed and greatly daunted an intellect of so much power ; I ... poet was per- fectly suited . It might be supposed that with these romantic tastes , Scott could scarcely have made ...
... poetry and art which could not but have both deeply impressed and greatly daunted an intellect of so much power ; I ... poet was per- fectly suited . It might be supposed that with these romantic tastes , Scott could scarcely have made ...
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... poetry were still more against him ; and his general repute for wild and unprofessional ad- venturousness - which was much greater than he deserved -was probably most of all against him . Before he had been six years at the bar he ...
... poetry were still more against him ; and his general repute for wild and unprofessional ad- venturousness - which was much greater than he deserved -was probably most of all against him . Before he had been six years at the bar he ...
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CHAPTER IV . EARLIEST POETRY AND BORDER MINSTRELSY . SCOTT's first serious attempt in poetry was a version of Bürger's Lenore , a spectre - ballad of the violent kind , much in favour in Germany at a somewhat earlier period , but ...
CHAPTER IV . EARLIEST POETRY AND BORDER MINSTRELSY . SCOTT's first serious attempt in poetry was a version of Bürger's Lenore , a spectre - ballad of the violent kind , much in favour in Germany at a somewhat earlier period , but ...
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... incidents and common cares of every - day human life than into the most romantic for- tunes ; from them you would never know how com- Perhaps for that reason he can on occasion relate a IV . ] EARLIEST POETRY AND BORDER MINS.
... incidents and common cares of every - day human life than into the most romantic for- tunes ; from them you would never know how com- Perhaps for that reason he can on occasion relate a IV . ] EARLIEST POETRY AND BORDER MINS.
Términos y frases comunes
Abbotsford acquaintance admiration afterwards Allan Cunningham appeared auld Ayrshire ballad Ballantyne beautiful Biographia Literaria brother Burns Burns's called Castle character Christabel Coleridge Coleridge's composed criticism Dalswinton delight doubt Dugald Stewart Dumfries Dunlop Edinburgh effect Ellisland expression farm father feeling gave genius give heart Highland honour humour imagination Jacobite James Ballantyne John Ballantyne kind Kirkoswald lady less letters lines literary lived Lockhart look Lord Mary Mauchline mind months mood Mossgiel nature Nether Stowey never once painful passed passion perhaps persons poems poet poet's poetic poetry political poor pride Redgauntlet remarkable Robert romantic says scene Scotch Scotland Scott Scottish seems seen Shanter Sir Walter song Southey spirit story strong things thou thought tion took tour turned verse volume whole wife wonder words Wordsworth writing written wrote young youth
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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...