The Cambridge History of English Literature: The nineteenth century. ISir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller The University Press, 1915 - English literature |
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... perhaps , to himself , a certain antique flavour on the form , as well as the substance , of his poem . From the immense poetic licence which this ' mescolanza of measures ' affords , success in its use , even in a strictly metrical ...
... perhaps , to himself , a certain antique flavour on the form , as well as the substance , of his poem . From the immense poetic licence which this ' mescolanza of measures ' affords , success in its use , even in a strictly metrical ...
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... perhaps , will be disposed to cavil very much . Scott here gave the world a glimpse of a new aspect of his genius . In none of his previous poetic tales did he direct special attention to the portrayal of character . With the exception ...
... perhaps , will be disposed to cavil very much . Scott here gave the world a glimpse of a new aspect of his genius . In none of his previous poetic tales did he direct special attention to the portrayal of character . With the exception ...
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... perhaps , as a lyric poet that Scott is seen to best advantage ; though , even in Scotland , his lyric greatness has been rather overlooked . Here , he has been overshadowed by Burns , and he hardly deserves to be so . Necessarily , he ...
... perhaps , as a lyric poet that Scott is seen to best advantage ; though , even in Scotland , his lyric greatness has been rather overlooked . Here , he has been overshadowed by Burns , and he hardly deserves to be so . Necessarily , he ...
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... whom he is thrown into a natural train of communication . For ourselves we can assure the reader - and perhaps if we have been able to afford him amusement it is owing in a great degree 2-2 I ] 19 Comprehensive Sympathies.
... whom he is thrown into a natural train of communication . For ourselves we can assure the reader - and perhaps if we have been able to afford him amusement it is owing in a great degree 2-2 I ] 19 Comprehensive Sympathies.
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... perhaps , less careful about historic accuracy in details ; as he puts it , ' a romancer wants but a hair to make a tether of . ' No such persons , for example , as Rashleigh , or Francis Osbaldistone , or Miss Vernon , or her father ...
... perhaps , less careful about historic accuracy in details ; as he puts it , ' a romancer wants but a hair to make a tether of . ' No such persons , for example , as Rashleigh , or Francis Osbaldistone , or Miss Vernon , or her father ...
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Page 341 - The Missing Fragment of the Latin Translation of the Fourth Book of Ezra, discovered, and edited with an Introduction and Notes, and a facsimile of the MS., by ROBERT L.
Page 116 - My own dim life should teach me this, That life shall live for evermore, Else earth is darkness at the core, And dust and ashes all that is ; This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty ; such as lurks In some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.
Page 237 - The work is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling; it wants shade; it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long Chapter of sense, if it could be had; if not, of solemn specious nonsense, about something unconnected with the Story; an Essay on Writing, a critique on Walter Scott, or the history of Buonaparte, or anything that would form a contrast, and bring the reader with increased delight to the playfulness and Epigrammatism of the general style.
Page 45 - The Giaour, the Bride of Abydos, the Corsair, Lara, the Siege of Corinth...
Page 105 - Having quitted the Borders, to seek new renown, Is coming, by long Quarto stages to Town : And beginning with ROKEBY (the job's sure to pay.) Means to do all the Gentlemen's Seats on the way. Now, the Scheme is (though none of our Hackneys can beat him) To start a fresh Poet through Highgate to meet him ; ' , Who, by means of quick proofs— no revises— long coaches — May do a few Villas, before Sc — TT approaches.
Page 29 - The disk of the sun became almost totally obscured ere he had altogether sunk below the horizon, and an early and lurid shade of darkness blotted the serene twilight of a summer evening.
Page 175 - I hate to see a load of bandboxes go along the street, and I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.
Page 203 - When I heard of the death of Coleridge, it was without grief. It seemed to me that he long had been on the confines of the next world, — that he had a hunger for eternity. I grieved then that I could not grieve. But since, I feel how great a part he was of me. His great and dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism on men or books, without an ineffectual turning and reference to him. He was the proof and touchstone of all my cogitations.
Page 2 - No funeral hearse crept more leisurely than did his landau up the Canongate or the Cowgate ; and not a queer tottering gable but recalled to him some long-buried memory of splendour or bloodshed, which, by a few words, he set before the hearer in the reality of life.