Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative of Those First Requisites of Their Art; with Markings of the Best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers |
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... face , His shoulders , breast , and more than half his trunk , With both the arms down hanging by the sides . His face appear'd to me , in length and breadth , Huge as St. Peter's pinnacle at Rome , And of a like proportion all his ...
... face , His shoulders , breast , and more than half his trunk , With both the arms down hanging by the sides . His face appear'd to me , in length and breadth , Huge as St. Peter's pinnacle at Rome , And of a like proportion all his ...
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... face , " & c.- -I cannot think the words peeping and stare , the best which the poet could have used ; but he is aggravating the beau- ties of his bride in a long epithalamium , and sacri- ficing everything to her superiority . The ...
... face , " & c.- -I cannot think the words peeping and stare , the best which the poet could have used ; but he is aggravating the beau- ties of his bride in a long epithalamium , and sacri- ficing everything to her superiority . The ...
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... face . I told her of the knight that wore Upon his shield a burning brand ; And that for ten long years he woo'd The lady of the land . I told her how he pin'd , and - ah ! The deep , the low , the pleading tone With which I sang ...
... face . I told her of the knight that wore Upon his shield a burning brand ; And that for ten long years he woo'd The lady of the land . I told her how he pin'd , and - ah ! The deep , the low , the pleading tone With which I sang ...
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AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION WHAT IS POETRY? | 1 |
SELECTIONS FROM SPENSER WITH CRITICAL NOTICE | 78 |
CHARISSA OR CHARITY | 110 |
Copyright | |
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