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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... head when it is cut off , sometimes by the hair , sometimes by the nose ! This , which would be purely childish and ridiculous in the hands of an inferior poet , becomes interesting , nay grand , in Ariosto's , from the beauties of his ...
... head when it is cut off , sometimes by the hair , sometimes by the nose ! This , which would be purely childish and ridiculous in the hands of an inferior poet , becomes interesting , nay grand , in Ariosto's , from the beauties of his ...
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... head She put the glory of a golden mist , From which there burnt a fiery - flaming light . And as , when smoke goes heaven - ward from a town , In some far island which its foes besiege , Who all day long with dreadful martialness Have ...
... head She put the glory of a golden mist , From which there burnt a fiery - flaming light . And as , when smoke goes heaven - ward from a town , In some far island which its foes besiege , Who all day long with dreadful martialness Have ...
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... head : The jolly satyrs , full of fresh delight , Came dancing forth , and with them nimbly led Fair Hellenore , with garlands all bespread , Whom their May - lady they had newly made : She , proud of that new honour which they redd ...
... head : The jolly satyrs , full of fresh delight , Came dancing forth , and with them nimbly led Fair Hellenore , with garlands all bespread , Whom their May - lady they had newly made : She , proud of that new honour which they redd ...
Contents
AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION WHAT IS POETRY? | 1 |
SELECTIONS FROM SPENSER WITH CRITICAL NOTICE | 78 |
CHARISSA OR CHARITY | 110 |
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