The Beauties of Modern Literature, in Verse and Prose: To which is Prefixed, a Preliminary View of the Literature of the AgeSherwood, Jones, and Company, 1824 - 484 páginas The preliminary view is chiefly a comparison of classical and romantic poetry. |
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... Earth and Heaven ) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime : here , hand in hand , Sit paramount the graces ; here enthroned , Celestial Venus with divinest airs , Invites the soul to never fading joy ...
... Earth and Heaven ) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime : here , hand in hand , Sit paramount the graces ; here enthroned , Celestial Venus with divinest airs , Invites the soul to never fading joy ...
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... earth , after the death of Goldsmith . With him , also , may be said to end the classical school of poetry . After the death of the simple , natural , classical , and pathetic Goldsmith , Cowper was the first poet who attracted any ...
... earth , after the death of Goldsmith . With him , also , may be said to end the classical school of poetry . After the death of the simple , natural , classical , and pathetic Goldsmith , Cowper was the first poet who attracted any ...
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... earth had released him : Its piteous pageants bring not back , Nor waken flesh upon the rack , Of pain anew to writhe ; that is , in other words , that annihilation is better than that state in which we are placed by the Deity . But if ...
... earth had released him : Its piteous pageants bring not back , Nor waken flesh upon the rack , Of pain anew to writhe ; that is , in other words , that annihilation is better than that state in which we are placed by the Deity . But if ...
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... earth . It is a planet more suited to our capa- bilities of enjoyment . We have not strength to relish ethereal pleasures for any length of time , and , therefore , we soon tire of all poetry that is purely imaginative . Hence it is ...
... earth . It is a planet more suited to our capa- bilities of enjoyment . We have not strength to relish ethereal pleasures for any length of time , and , therefore , we soon tire of all poetry that is purely imaginative . Hence it is ...
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... earth , for half a minute , without falling back again - we say , they would find it more difficult to paint the character of this mere human man - let him be Cæsar or Cato , Cromwell or Buo- naparte , than to create and describe an ...
... earth , for half a minute , without falling back again - we say , they would find it more difficult to paint the character of this mere human man - let him be Cæsar or Cato , Cromwell or Buo- naparte , than to create and describe an ...
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