Prose of the Romantic PeriodCarl Woodring Houghton Mifflin, 1961 - 600 pages Prose excerpts from the works of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walter Savage Landor, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Thomas de Quincey, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and others. |
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Page 126
... less forcibly evidenced , and less happily combined : all the parts are more or less present , but they are not united with the same harmony . There are , however , in " Romeo and Juliet " passages where the poet's whole excellence is ...
... less forcibly evidenced , and less happily combined : all the parts are more or less present , but they are not united with the same harmony . There are , however , in " Romeo and Juliet " passages where the poet's whole excellence is ...
Page 173
... less potently does Imagination urge Æschylus on , from the range of beacons to the bath of Agamemnon ; nor expand less potently the vulture's wing over the lacerated bosom on the rocks of Caucasus . With the earliest flowers of the ...
... less potently does Imagination urge Æschylus on , from the range of beacons to the bath of Agamemnon ; nor expand less potently the vulture's wing over the lacerated bosom on the rocks of Caucasus . With the earliest flowers of the ...
Page 501
... less poetical than those of Greece , as the shadow is less vivid than the substance . Hence poetry in Rome , seemed to follow , rather than accompany , the perfection of political and domestic society . The true poetry of Rome lived in ...
... less poetical than those of Greece , as the shadow is less vivid than the substance . Hence poetry in Rome , seemed to follow , rather than accompany , the perfection of political and domestic society . The true poetry of Rome lived in ...
Contents
JEREMY BENTHAM | 4 |
THOMAS PAINE | 11 |
THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS | 20 |
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