The Retrospective Review.., Volumen8Henry Southern Charles and Henry Baldwyn, Newgate Street., 1823 |
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... epic poetry - and like most persons in similar conditions , Monsieur d'Elbénc was up to his ears in debt . We are gravely told of his calling one morning on Ménage , to request a special favour - which was , that he would write an epic ...
... epic poetry - and like most persons in similar conditions , Monsieur d'Elbénc was up to his ears in debt . We are gravely told of his calling one morning on Ménage , to request a special favour - which was , that he would write an epic ...
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... epic poem . His view of the latter is confined to the heroic epic ; but no argument can be deduced from it to prove , that he considered the epic poem necessarily heroic . From its Greek origin , it obviously applies to narrative poetry ...
... epic poem . His view of the latter is confined to the heroic epic ; but no argument can be deduced from it to prove , that he considered the epic poem necessarily heroic . From its Greek origin , it obviously applies to narrative poetry ...
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... epic , the dramatic , and the comic . If there be only these seven , and if each has laws peculiar to itself , it is obvious that he who enters into what he considers a region of the poetical world different from either , and who ...
... epic , the dramatic , and the comic . If there be only these seven , and if each has laws peculiar to itself , it is obvious that he who enters into what he considers a region of the poetical world different from either , and who ...
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Henry Southern. cies of epic but the heroic , they had no choice but that of condemning the Orlando . The question then to be deter- mined is , whether there be any thing in the nature of poetry that necessarily confines it to the ...
Henry Southern. cies of epic but the heroic , they had no choice but that of condemning the Orlando . The question then to be deter- mined is , whether there be any thing in the nature of poetry that necessarily confines it to the ...
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... epic than to any other species of poetry , have called it an epic poem ; but not imagining there could be different species of this poem , and finding it transgressed many of the laws observed by Homer , Virgil , and Tasso , the greater ...
... epic than to any other species of poetry , have called it an epic poem ; but not imagining there could be different species of this poem , and finding it transgressed many of the laws observed by Homer , Virgil , and Tasso , the greater ...
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Página 247 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Página 312 - The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again, The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers up, So fill'd that they oerflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess By...
Página 56 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Página 36 - A Valediction Forbidding Mourning As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say 'The breath goes now,' and some say 'No'; So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods nor sigh-tempests move; 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of th...
Página 247 - Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Página 39 - Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday. Running it never runs from us away. But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
Página 43 - And let ourselves benight our happiest day; We ask'd none leave to love; nor will we owe Any, so cheap a death, as saying, Go; Go; and if that word have not quite killed thee.
Página 37 - I WONDER, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd? Were we not wean'd till then? But suck'd on country pleasures, childishly ? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den? . . 'Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be. If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desir'd, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee. And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which...
Página 37 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Página 36 - Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of the earth brings harms and fears; Men reckon what it did and meant; But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent. Dull sublunary lovers' love, Whose soul is sense, cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove 15 Those things which elemented it.