Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative of Those First Requisites of Their Art; with Markings of the Best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in Answer to the Question, "What is Poetry?"Wiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 páginas |
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... Thomson's delightful allegory , and Pope's paragon of mock - heroics , would have been found in this volume , but for that intentional , artificial imitation , even in the former , which removes them at too great a distance from the ...
... Thomson's delightful allegory , and Pope's paragon of mock - heroics , would have been found in this volume , but for that intentional , artificial imitation , even in the former , which removes them at too great a distance from the ...
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... Thomson , Shenstone , and a host of inferior writers , ex- pressly imitated him ; Burns , Byron , Shelley , and Keats made use of his stanza ; Coleridge eulogized him ; and he is as dear to the best living poets as he was to their ...
... Thomson , Shenstone , and a host of inferior writers , ex- pressly imitated him ; Burns , Byron , Shelley , and Keats made use of his stanza ; Coleridge eulogized him ; and he is as dear to the best living poets as he was to their ...
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... Thomson in his Winter says of the storm , I shall ' Hear astonished , and as- tonished sing . ' To leave the heights of Parnassus and come to the humble vale of prose , I have some misgivings that I take too much upon me , when I ...
... Thomson in his Winter says of the storm , I shall ' Hear astonished , and as- tonished sing . ' To leave the heights of Parnassus and come to the humble vale of prose , I have some misgivings that I take too much upon me , when I ...
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... Thomson as a champion and vindicator of the truth . The insolent eulogist dared to say that Robert Burns in marrying Jean Armour , " re- paired seduction by the most precious sacrifice , short of life , which one human being can make to ...
... Thomson as a champion and vindicator of the truth . The insolent eulogist dared to say that Robert Burns in marrying Jean Armour , " re- paired seduction by the most precious sacrifice , short of life , which one human being can make to ...
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... Thomson . He contributed to that gentleman sixty original songs , and a noble contribution it was ; besides hints , suggestions , emendations , and restorations innumerable ; but three times as many were written by him , emended or ...
... Thomson . He contributed to that gentleman sixty original songs , and a noble contribution it was ; besides hints , suggestions , emendations , and restorations innumerable ; but three times as many were written by him , emended or ...
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auld bard Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson bless bonnie breath Burns's called character charm Chaucer dear death delight divine doth dream Dumfries earth Ellisland eyes Faerie Queene fair fairy fancy fear feeling felt flowers frae gauger genius hand happy hath head hear heard heart heaven Hector Macneil hour human imagination inspired knew labor lady light live look Lycidas Macbeth Mauchline melancholy Milton mind mirth moral morning Mossgiel muse nature never noble o'er passage passion perhaps pity pleasure poem poet poet's poetical poetry poor pride rhyme Robert Burns round Scotland Scottish Shakspeare Shanter sing sleep song soul Spenser spirit stanza sugh sweet Sycorax Tamburlaine tears tell thee things Thomson thou art thought tion TITANIA truth verse voice Whyles wife William Burnes wind witch wood words young youth