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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... light of reason , and bursts through the empalement , within which taste and criticism would confine its flight . Hence it is , that when we meet with a beauti- ful image in modern poetry , it frequently seems to stand solitary and ...
... light of reason , and bursts through the empalement , within which taste and criticism would confine its flight . Hence it is , that when we meet with a beauti- ful image in modern poetry , it frequently seems to stand solitary and ...
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... , And the king seiz'd a flambeau with zeal to destroy . Thaïs led the way , To light him to his prey ; And like another Helen fired another Troy . 3 The love - sick bard can never awaken such a xviii PRELIMINARY VIEW.
... , And the king seiz'd a flambeau with zeal to destroy . Thaïs led the way , To light him to his prey ; And like another Helen fired another Troy . 3 The love - sick bard can never awaken such a xviii PRELIMINARY VIEW.
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... light and airy drapery of fancy ; and the pathetic muse seems to have forsaken us entirely , and either to have returned , like Astrea , to heaven , or sought some happier clime upon earth , after the death of Goldsmith . With him ...
... light and airy drapery of fancy ; and the pathetic muse seems to have forsaken us entirely , and either to have returned , like Astrea , to heaven , or sought some happier clime upon earth , after the death of Goldsmith . With him ...
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... light vesture of romance . The human heart , its sensibilities , feelings , passions , sympathies , aversions , propensities , desires , weak- nesses , and general affections , are real things , and the real subjects of his muse . His ...
... light vesture of romance . The human heart , its sensibilities , feelings , passions , sympathies , aversions , propensities , desires , weak- nesses , and general affections , are real things , and the real subjects of his muse . His ...
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... Light winged hopes , that come when bid , And rain - bow joys , that end in weeping , And passions , among pure thoughts hid , Like serpents under flow'rets sleeping . Though it is difficult , as we have already observed , to select ...
... Light winged hopes , that come when bid , And rain - bow joys , that end in weeping , And passions , among pure thoughts hid , Like serpents under flow'rets sleeping . Though it is difficult , as we have already observed , to select ...
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