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... stories . The poem is unfinished ; but though only a fragment , it is almost twice the length of Paradise Lost . The ... story of Griselda is full of the tenderest pathos : in some there is the broadest humour ; in others the deepest ...
... stories . The poem is unfinished ; but though only a fragment , it is almost twice the length of Paradise Lost . The ... story of Griselda is full of the tenderest pathos : in some there is the broadest humour ; in others the deepest ...
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... story of Una is shadowed out the history of the English Church , Duessa being designed to represent the Church of Rome . In each of the other five books , the central figure is a knight who is the emblem of some abstract virtue ; as ...
... story of Una is shadowed out the history of the English Church , Duessa being designed to represent the Church of Rome . In each of the other five books , the central figure is a knight who is the emblem of some abstract virtue ; as ...
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... story of his having to leave home abruptly , in order to avoid the consequences of a deer - stealing affair in which he had been engaged , has no better foundation than vague tradition . It is more probable that , prompted by his love ...
... story of his having to leave home abruptly , in order to avoid the consequences of a deer - stealing affair in which he had been engaged , has no better foundation than vague tradition . It is more probable that , prompted by his love ...
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... story , how- ever , rests on no solid foundation ; the probability is , that respect for his abilities , and compassion for his distress , had something to do with the lenient treatment which he experienced . He was now poor and blind ...
... story , how- ever , rests on no solid foundation ; the probability is , that respect for his abilities , and compassion for his distress , had something to do with the lenient treatment which he experienced . He was now poor and blind ...
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... story . And yet simple as the language is , it is fully equal to the demands made upon it . As Macaulay remarks : " for magnificence , for pathos , for vehement exhortation , for subtle disquisition , for every purpose of the poet , the ...
... story . And yet simple as the language is , it is fully equal to the demands made upon it . As Macaulay remarks : " for magnificence , for pathos , for vehement exhortation , for subtle disquisition , for every purpose of the poet , the ...
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Էջ 36 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.
Էջ 37 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me ; Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief.
Էջ 129 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Էջ 205 - Wordsworth on the other hand, |was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us; an inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes, yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor...
Էջ 113 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was...
Էջ 209 - Several years ago, when the Author retired to his native Mountains, with the hope of being enabled to construct a literary Work that might live, it was a reasonable thing that he should take a review of his own Mind, and examine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for such employment. As subsidiary to this preparation, he undertook to record, in Verse, the origin and progress of his own powers, as far as he was acquainted with them.
Էջ 127 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Էջ 35 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Էջ 205 - ... modifying colours of the imagination. The sudden charm which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset diffused over a known and familiar landscape, appeared to represent the practicability of combining both.
Էջ 154 - I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power, for I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or check.