Lectures on Poetry and General Literature: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831 |
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... Stanza and the Sonnet - The Spen- 73 LECTURE IV . THE DICTION OF POETRY . Alliterative English Verse . - Rhymed Verse .. - - Blank Verse.- -- Poetic Phraseology . - Variety of Style . - Mr. Words- worth's Theory of Poetic Diction . — Dr ...
... Stanza and the Sonnet - The Spen- 73 LECTURE IV . THE DICTION OF POETRY . Alliterative English Verse . - Rhymed Verse .. - - Blank Verse.- -- Poetic Phraseology . - Variety of Style . - Mr. Words- worth's Theory of Poetic Diction . — Dr ...
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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 I have been discussing ) , stand unrivalled by any war - songs with which I am ac- quainted , whether among the few fragments of anti- quity , or in the whole armoury of later ages . Poetry and Sculpture . Sculpture is the ...
... stanzas I have been discussing ) , stand unrivalled by any war - songs with which I am ac- quainted , whether among the few fragments of anti- quity , or in the whole armoury of later ages . Poetry and Sculpture . Sculpture is the ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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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 implicated and symmetrical , from the disposition of the paral- lelisms , 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 implicated and symmetrical , from the disposition of the paral- lelisms , and ...
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