Lectures on Poetry and General Literature: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Longman, 1833 - 394 стор. |
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... Verse and Prose . Characteristics of Prose and Verse . - - Jeremy Taylor . - Hebrew Poetry . - Greek and sody.- Modern Metres and Forms of Verse . · serian Stanza and the Sonnet LECTURE IV . THE DICTION OF POETRY . - - Latin Pro- The ...
... Verse and Prose . Characteristics of Prose and Verse . - - Jeremy Taylor . - Hebrew Poetry . - Greek and sody.- Modern Metres and Forms of Verse . · serian Stanza and the Sonnet LECTURE IV . THE DICTION OF POETRY . - - Latin Pro- The ...
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... verse , renowned in their generation , of whom there are not fifty whose compositions rise to the dig- nity of true poetry ; and of these there are scarcely ten who are familiarly known by their works at this day . The art of ...
... verse , renowned in their generation , of whom there are not fifty whose compositions rise to the dig- nity of true poetry ; and of these there are scarcely ten who are familiarly known by their works at this day . The art of ...
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... verse alone redeems the whole from being plain prose in the first six lines ; but thenceforward it rises through every clause in energy and grandeur , till the reader feels himself carried away by the impetuosity of that ، adventurous ...
... verse alone redeems the whole from being plain prose in the first six lines ; but thenceforward it rises through every clause in energy and grandeur , till the reader feels himself carried away by the impetuosity of that ، adventurous ...
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... Verse ! " exclaims the greatest of our poets , ( himself a musician , and never more a poet than when he chants the praises of the sister art , as he does in a hundred passages , ) — - " Blest pair of Syrens , Voice and Verse ! B 4 NO ...
... Verse ! " exclaims the greatest of our poets , ( himself a musician , and never more a poet than when he chants the praises of the sister art , as he does in a hundred passages , ) — - " Blest pair of Syrens , Voice and Verse ! B 4 NO ...
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... verse may be fitted to strains of music worthy of them , we have examples abundant in the present day , from the songs of Robert Burns to the melodies of Thomas Moore . Yet something must be conceded occasionally on the part of the ...
... verse may be fitted to strains of music worthy of them , we have examples abundant in the present day , from the songs of Robert Burns to the melodies of Thomas Moore . Yet something must be conceded occasionally on the part of the ...
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Lectures on Poetry and General Literature: Delivered at the Royal ... James Montgomery Повний перегляд - 1833 |
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