Lectures on English Poetry: From the Reign of Edward the Third, to the Time of Burns and Cowper, Delivered at the Russell Institution, in 1827; with Miscellaneous Tales and Poems; Being the Literary Remains of the Late Henry NeeleSmith, Elder & Company, 1830 - 543 páginas |
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... . Having been long engaged in studying the Poets of the olden time , particularly the great masters of the Drama of the age of Queen Elizabeth , for a 3 all of whom , but more especially for Shakspeare , INTRODUCTION . ix.
... . Having been long engaged in studying the Poets of the olden time , particularly the great masters of the Drama of the age of Queen Elizabeth , for a 3 all of whom , but more especially for Shakspeare , INTRODUCTION . ix.
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... Queen Anne - Compared with the Age of Elizabeth : -The Didactic Writers : -Improvement in the Public Taste : - Modern Authors to the time of Cowper . It may appear somewhat presumptuous to hope to interest your attention , by a series ...
... Queen Anne - Compared with the Age of Elizabeth : -The Didactic Writers : -Improvement in the Public Taste : - Modern Authors to the time of Cowper . It may appear somewhat presumptuous to hope to interest your attention , by a series ...
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... - mical animosity , which now again deluged the nation with blood , did not subside until Elizabeth ascended the throne . The Reign of Queen Eliza- beth is the most illustrious period in the Literary history ENGLISH POETRY . 11.
... - mical animosity , which now again deluged the nation with blood , did not subside until Elizabeth ascended the throne . The Reign of Queen Eliza- beth is the most illustrious period in the Literary history ENGLISH POETRY . 11.
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... Queen Anne , but we are prepared to shew that the Literary trophies of the first mentioned period , are more splendid and important , than those of all the other three united . We are not alluding merely to what passed in our own ...
... Queen Anne , but we are prepared to shew that the Literary trophies of the first mentioned period , are more splendid and important , than those of all the other three united . We are not alluding merely to what passed in our own ...
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... Queen Anne , to which our en- quiries have now brought us , is a very celebrated period in the annals of English Literature , and has been generally styled it's Augustan age . I am not disposed to quarrel with names . As far as Prose ...
... Queen Anne , to which our en- quiries have now brought us , is a very celebrated period in the annals of English Literature , and has been generally styled it's Augustan age . I am not disposed to quarrel with names . As far as Prose ...
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Página 70 - Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
Página 101 - As a sick girl. Ye gods ! it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
Página 202 - Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
Página 368 - With saintly shout and solemn jubilee. Where the bright Seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel-trumpets blow. And the Cherubic host in thousand quires Touch their immortal harps of golden wires. With those just spirits that wear victorious palms. Hymns devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly: That we on earth with undiscording voice May rightly answer that melodious noise; As once we did.
Página 183 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Página 116 - Sheds itself through the face, As alone there triumphs to the life All the gain, all the good, of the elements
Página 33 - tis true, this god did shake : His coward lips did from their colour fly ; And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him, and write his speeches in their books, , Alas ! it cried, " Give me some drink, Titinius,
Página 203 - ... to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timber, never gives ; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.
Página 71 - Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine : Though still some traces of our rustic vein And splay-foot verse remain'd, and will remain.
Página 91 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...