American Literary CriticismBooks for Libraries Press, 1968 - 318 pages |
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Page 42
... merit . As Pope has been denied to possess imagination , Mr. Hazlitt claims for him fancy , a claim which is imme- diately allowed , for up starts before us the Rape of the Lock , with its fairy creatures . It would be as unnecessary as ...
... merit . As Pope has been denied to possess imagination , Mr. Hazlitt claims for him fancy , a claim which is imme- diately allowed , for up starts before us the Rape of the Lock , with its fairy creatures . It would be as unnecessary as ...
Page 88
... merit of lines , but a total merit of the piece ; like the tone of voice of some incomparable person , so is this a speech of poetic beings , and any clause as unproducible now as a whole poem . Though the speeches in the plays , and ...
... merit of lines , but a total merit of the piece ; like the tone of voice of some incomparable person , so is this a speech of poetic beings , and any clause as unproducible now as a whole poem . Though the speeches in the plays , and ...
Page 117
... merits of a work of Art , is to admit that they are not merits altogether . Among the " Melodies " of Thomas Moore , is one whose distinguished character as a poem proper , seems to have been singularly left out of view . I allude to ...
... merits of a work of Art , is to admit that they are not merits altogether . Among the " Melodies " of Thomas Moore , is one whose distinguished character as a poem proper , seems to have been singularly left out of view . I allude to ...
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