Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices, |
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Page 117
... feel- ings which dictated it . The reader may be amused to see how these verses are be - praised by Puttenham , the writer of the " Arte of English Poesie , " the first regular critic known in England . " I find none example in English ...
... feel- ings which dictated it . The reader may be amused to see how these verses are be - praised by Puttenham , the writer of the " Arte of English Poesie , " the first regular critic known in England . " I find none example in English ...
Page 142
... one of those rare and happy persons who come into the world once in a century to unite the suffrages of mankind in one spontaneous feel- ing of love and admiration . Though his character was 142 SYDNEY . SIR PHILIP SYDNEY.
... one of those rare and happy persons who come into the world once in a century to unite the suffrages of mankind in one spontaneous feel- ing of love and admiration . Though his character was 142 SYDNEY . SIR PHILIP SYDNEY.
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... feeling which flowed from his own heart , unrestrained by the coldness of Italian conceits , and the false taste of his models . He dealt in real existences , and into the inventions of the poet carried the spirit of the man and the ...
... feeling which flowed from his own heart , unrestrained by the coldness of Italian conceits , and the false taste of his models . He dealt in real existences , and into the inventions of the poet carried the spirit of the man and the ...
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... feeling of his charmer's indivi- duality allied to pain . Of all the modern critics of Shak- speare , the palm must be yielded to Mr Hazlitt , as much for the fervid and cordial heartiness of his admiration , as for his delicate ...
... feeling of his charmer's indivi- duality allied to pain . Of all the modern critics of Shak- speare , the palm must be yielded to Mr Hazlitt , as much for the fervid and cordial heartiness of his admiration , as for his delicate ...
Page 177
... feel , and act , as he makes them . He had only to think of any thing in order to become that thing , with all the circumstances belonging to it . When he conceived of a character , whether real or imaginary , he not only entered into ...
... feel , and act , as he makes them . He had only to think of any thing in order to become that thing , with all the circumstances belonging to it . When he conceived of a character , whether real or imaginary , he not only entered into ...
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