Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831 ; Complete in One VolumeHarper, 1838 - 324 من الصفحات |
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... . Wordsworth's Theory of Poetic Diction - Dr . Darwin's Theory of Poetic Style - Poetic Licenses and Dialects - Scottish Verse - Capa- bilities of Languages • 101 LECTURE V. VARIOUS CLASSES OF POETRY Narrative Poetry - Allegorical.
... . Wordsworth's Theory of Poetic Diction - Dr . Darwin's Theory of Poetic Style - Poetic Licenses and Dialects - Scottish Verse - Capa- bilities of Languages • 101 LECTURE V. VARIOUS CLASSES OF POETRY Narrative Poetry - Allegorical.
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... language ; the earliest perpetuation of thought : it existed before prose in history , before music in melody , before painting in description , and before sculpture in imagery . Anterior to the discovery of letters , it was employed to ...
... language ; the earliest perpetuation of thought : it existed before prose in history , before music in melody , before painting in description , and before sculpture in imagery . Anterior to the discovery of letters , it was employed to ...
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... language and sentiments are so intimately connected , that they are remembered together ; they are soul and body , which cannot be separated without death , - -a death in which the dis- solution of the one causes the disappearance of ...
... language and sentiments are so intimately connected , that they are remembered together ; they are soul and body , which cannot be separated without death , - -a death in which the dis- solution of the one causes the disappearance of ...
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... language , or does not appeal to memory , is simply a sensual and vague , though an innocent and highly exhilarating delight , conveying no direct improvement to the heart , and leaving little permanent impression upon the mind . When ...
... language , or does not appeal to memory , is simply a sensual and vague , though an innocent and highly exhilarating delight , conveying no direct improvement to the heart , and leaving little permanent impression upon the mind . When ...
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... language , addressed only to the eye , for the sounds , whatever be our pronunciation , are little more than imaginary ; Cicero and Demos- thenes have exercised no such power over posterity as Homer and Virgil have done , though the ...
... language , addressed only to the eye , for the sounds , whatever be our pronunciation , are little more than imaginary ; Cicero and Demos- thenes have exercised no such power over posterity as Homer and Virgil have done , though the ...
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admiration Æneid affecting amid ancient beauty blank verse character circumstances colour composition death delight diction Dryden dwell earth Egyptians eloquence employed English equally excellence express exquisite Faerie Queene fancy feel genius glory Greece Greek hand harmony heart heaven Henry Kirke White hieroglyphics Homer honour human ideas Iliad images imagination immortality invention Joanna Baillie kind labours Lamech language latter learning less lines literature living Lord Lord Byron memory ment metre Milton mind modern moral nature never once original Paradise Lost passage passions peculiar perfect perpetual Pisistratus pleonasm poem poet poetical poetry present prose reader rhyme Robert Burns Roman Rome Saracens scarcely scene sculpture sentiments song soul sound Spenserian stanza spirit splendour stanzas stars strains style sublime syllables taste thee theme things thou thought tion tongue touch truth uncon verse Virgil whole words writing
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الصفحة 229 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
الصفحة 114 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark! now I hear them, — ding-dong, bell.
الصفحة 231 - Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up : he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion ; who shall rouse him up ? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come ; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
الصفحة 94 - Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings, Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue Thy lingering, or with one stroke of this dart Strange horror seize thee, and pangs unfelt before.
الصفحة 86 - As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
الصفحة 78 - And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them ; there remained not so much as one of them.
الصفحة 77 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their...
الصفحة 227 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice ; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech : for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt : 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
الصفحة 119 - ... the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.
الصفحة 76 - Lear. Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.