Specimens of the British Poets;: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and an Essay on English Poetry. In seven volumes..John Murray, Albermarle-Street., 1819 |
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... fancy'd you would not come down , -But pray walk in , maʼm — Mrs . Brown . Mrs. S. Your servant , madam . Well , I swear I'd giv'n you over . - Child , a chair . Pray , ma'm , be seated . Mrs. B. Lard ! my dear , I vow I'm almost dead ...
... fancy'd you would not come down , -But pray walk in , maʼm — Mrs . Brown . Mrs. S. Your servant , madam . Well , I swear I'd giv'n you over . - Child , a chair . Pray , ma'm , be seated . Mrs. B. Lard ! my dear , I vow I'm almost dead ...
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... fancy appears devoted to aggraváte the picture of his desolate feelings , and the other half to contradict that picture by eccentric images and epigrammatic ingenuities . As a poet he was fond of exaggeration , but it was that of the fancy ...
... fancy appears devoted to aggraváte the picture of his desolate feelings , and the other half to contradict that picture by eccentric images and epigrammatic ingenuities . As a poet he was fond of exaggeration , but it was that of the fancy ...
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... fancy discharges itself on the mind in short ictuses of sur- prise , which rather lose than increase their force by reiteration , but he is remarkably defective in pro- gressive interest and collective effect . The power of the poem ...
... fancy discharges itself on the mind in short ictuses of sur- prise , which rather lose than increase their force by reiteration , but he is remarkably defective in pro- gressive interest and collective effect . The power of the poem ...
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... fancy , like a man appearing to make a long voyage while he is in reality only crossing and recrossing the same ex- panse of water . He has been well described in a late poem , as one in whom " Still gleams and still expires the cloudy ...
... fancy , like a man appearing to make a long voyage while he is in reality only crossing and recrossing the same ex- panse of water . He has been well described in a late poem , as one in whom " Still gleams and still expires the cloudy ...
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... fancy spun , Till darken'd reason lay quite clouded o'er With soft conceit of endless comfort here , Nor yet put forth her wings to reach the skies ! Night - visions may befriend : ( as sung above ) Our waking dreams are fatal . How I ...
... fancy spun , Till darken'd reason lay quite clouded o'er With soft conceit of endless comfort here , Nor yet put forth her wings to reach the skies ! Night - visions may befriend : ( as sung above ) Our waking dreams are fatal . How I ...
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