Lectures on General Literature, Poetry: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831 |
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... Stanza and the Sonnet • LECTURE IV . THE DICTION OF POETRY . 68 Alliterative English Verse - Rhymed Verse - Blank Verse- Poetic Phraseology - Variety of Style - Mr . Wordsworth's ' Theory of Poetic Diction - Dr . Darwin's Theory of ...
... Stanza and the Sonnet • LECTURE IV . THE DICTION OF POETRY . 68 Alliterative English Verse - Rhymed Verse - Blank Verse- Poetic Phraseology - Variety of Style - Mr . Wordsworth's ' Theory of Poetic Diction - Dr . Darwin's Theory of ...
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... stanzas from probably a hasty , but certainly a happy , effusion of Thomas Campbell's , in the dew and blossom of his youthful poetry , will exemplify this fact . They refer to a morning walk , in company with a Russian lady , to a ...
... stanzas from probably a hasty , but certainly a happy , effusion of Thomas Campbell's , in the dew and blossom of his youthful poetry , will exemplify this fact . They refer to a morning walk , in company with a Russian lady , to a ...
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... stanzas have been discussing ) stand unri- valled by any war - songs with which I am acquainted , whether among the few fragments of antiquity , or in the whole armory of later ages . Poetry and Sculpture . Sculpture is the noblest ...
... stanzas have been discussing ) stand unri- valled by any war - songs with which I am acquainted , whether among the few fragments of antiquity , or in the whole armory of later ages . Poetry and Sculpture . Sculpture is the noblest ...
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... stanzas from " Childe Harold , " in which that very statue is turned into verse , which seems almost to make it visible : - THE DYING GLADIATOR . " I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to ...
... stanzas from " Childe Harold , " in which that very statue is turned into verse , which seems almost to make it visible : - THE DYING GLADIATOR . " I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to ...
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... stanzas ( manifestly such to the eye , and not alto- gether imperceptible by the ear ) , consisting of two , three , four , and even five lines , admirably impli cated and symmetrical , from the disposition of the parallelisms , and ...
... stanzas ( manifestly such to the eye , and not alto- gether imperceptible by the ear ) , consisting of two , three , four , and even five lines , admirably impli cated and symmetrical , from the disposition of the parallelisms , and ...
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