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 pages |
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... Pass him , and say naught : For as he speaketh language known of none , So none can speak save jargon to himself . " Assuredly it could not have been easy to find a fiction so un- couthly terrible as this in the hypochondria of Hamlet ...
... Pass him , and say naught : For as he speaketh language known of none , So none can speak save jargon to himself . " Assuredly it could not have been easy to find a fiction so un- couthly terrible as this in the hypochondria of Hamlet ...
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... pass ; and though the neighboring chiefs may ver Him also , and his borders find no help , Yet when he hears that thou art still alive , He gladdens inwardly , and daily hopes To see his dear son coming back from Troy . But I , bereav'd ...
... pass ; and though the neighboring chiefs may ver Him also , and his borders find no help , Yet when he hears that thou art still alive , He gladdens inwardly , and daily hopes To see his dear son coming back from Troy . But I , bereav'd ...
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... Pass to the earth below it . The walls of spiders ' legs are made , Well morticed and finely laid : He was the master of his trade , It curiously that builded : The windows of the eyes of cats : ( because they see best at night ) And ...
... Pass to the earth below it . The walls of spiders ' legs are made , Well morticed and finely laid : He was the master of his trade , It curiously that builded : The windows of the eyes of cats : ( because they see best at night ) And ...
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... passes , of the towns , of the heavens , of the steam - engine itself , thundering and fuming along like a magic horse , of the affections that are carrying , perhaps , half the passengers on their journey , nay , of those of the great ...
... passes , of the towns , of the heavens , of the steam - engine itself , thundering and fuming along like a magic horse , of the affections that are carrying , perhaps , half the passengers on their journey , nay , of those of the great ...
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... pass In travel to and fro : a little wide There was a holy chapel edified , Wherein the hermit duly wont to say His holy things each morn and eventide ; Thereby a crystal stream did gently play Which from a sacred fountain welled forth ...
... pass In travel to and fro : a little wide There was a holy chapel edified , Wherein the hermit duly wont to say His holy things each morn and eventide ; Thereby a crystal stream did gently play Which from a sacred fountain welled forth ...
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