On Ellis's Specimens of the early English poets. Ellis' and Ritson's Specimens of early English metrical romances. Godwin's life of Chaucer. Todd's edition of Spenser. Herbert's poems Evans's Old ballads. Moliere. Chatterton. Reliques of Burns. Compbell's Gertrude of Wyoming. The battles of Talavera; a poem. Southey's Curse of Kehama. Childe Harold's pilgrimage, canto IV. Amadis of Gaul. Southey's Chronicle of the Cid. Southey's Life of John Bunyan. Godwin's Fleetwood. Cumberland's John De Lancaster. Maturin's Fatal revenge. Maturin's Women; or, Pour et contre. Miss Austen's novels. Remarks on FrankensteinCarey & Hart, 1841 |
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Walter Scott. MISCELLANIES BY SIR WALTER SCOTT . POETICAL CRITICISM . EARLY ENGLISH POETRY . * [ Edinburgh Review , 1804. ] It is obvious to every one who has studied our language , whether in prose or poetry , that a luminous history of ...
Walter Scott. MISCELLANIES BY SIR WALTER SCOTT . POETICAL CRITICISM . EARLY ENGLISH POETRY . * [ Edinburgh Review , 1804. ] It is obvious to every one who has studied our language , whether in prose or poetry , that a luminous history of ...
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... poetry and of philosophy . The history of poetry is intimately connected with that of language . Authors in the infancy of composition , like Pope in that of life , may be said to " lisp in numbers . " History , religion , morality ...
... poetry and of philosophy . The history of poetry is intimately connected with that of language . Authors in the infancy of composition , like Pope in that of life , may be said to " lisp in numbers . " History , religion , morality ...
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... poetry is the history of the language itself . It therefore seems surprising , that where the subject is interesting in a peculiar as well as in a general point of view , a distinct and connected history of our poetry , and the language ...
... poetry is the history of the language itself . It therefore seems surprising , that where the subject is interesting in a peculiar as well as in a general point of view , a distinct and connected history of our poetry , and the language ...
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... poetry , determine what were the rules of their verse . Rhyme they had none ; their rhythm seems to have been uncertain ; and perhaps their whole poetry consisted in the adaptation of the words to some simple tune ; although Mr. Ellis ...
... poetry , determine what were the rules of their verse . Rhyme they had none ; their rhythm seems to have been uncertain ; and perhaps their whole poetry consisted in the adaptation of the words to some simple tune ; although Mr. Ellis ...
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Walter Scott. This appears to us an exquisite imitation of the antiquated English poetry ; not depending on an accumulation of hard words , like the language of Rowley , which , in everything else , is refined and harmonious poetry , nor ...
Walter Scott. This appears to us an exquisite imitation of the antiquated English poetry ; not depending on an accumulation of hard words , like the language of Rowley , which , in everything else , is refined and harmonious poetry , nor ...
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Page 249 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
Page 254 - I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 182 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Page 190 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Page 185 - When youthful love, warm-blushing, strong, Keen-shivering shot thy nerves along, Those accents, grateful to thy tongue, Th' adored Name, I taught thee how to pour in song, To soothe thy flame. " I saw thy pulse's maddening play, Wild send thee Pleasure's devious way, Misled by Fancy's meteor ray, By Passion driven ; But yet the light that led astray . Was light from Heaven.
Page 437 - His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath ; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.
Page 340 - Wouldst thou divert thyself from melancholy? Wouldst thou be pleasant, yet be far from folly? Wouldst thou read riddles, and their explanation, Or else be drowned in thy contemplation? Dost thou love picking meat? Or wouldst thou see A man i' th' clouds and hear him speak to thee?
Page 255 - Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou ? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead ? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, Less beloved head...
Page 31 - Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass On which the Tartar king did ride; And if aught else great bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of turneys, and of trophies hung, Of forests, and enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the ear.
Page 242 - Ye! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell A single recollection, not in vain He wore his sandal-shoon and scallop-shell; Farewell! with him alone may rest the pain If such there were — with you, the moral of his strain.