The Romantics Reviewed: Contemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers. Part A: The Lake Poets - Volume IIFirst published in 1972, this volume contains contemporary British periodical reviews of the Lake Poets, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey and Lamb, in publications from the Edinburgh Review to Variety. Introductions to each periodical provide brief sketches of each publication as well as names, dates and bibliographical information. Headnotes offer bibliographical data of the reviews and suggested approaches to studying them. This book will be of interest to those studying the Romantics and English literature. |
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Page 421
How his heart pants ! you see The panting of his heart ; And tears like human tears Roll down , along the big veins they perished all , All in that dreadful hour : but I was saved , To remember and revenge .
How his heart pants ! you see The panting of his heart ; And tears like human tears Roll down , along the big veins they perished all , All in that dreadful hour : but I was saved , To remember and revenge .
Page 422
Those who can prefer this eternal forcery , to the just and modest representation of human actions and paffions , will probably take more delight in walking among the holly griffins , and yew sphinxes of the city gardener , than in ...
Those who can prefer this eternal forcery , to the just and modest representation of human actions and paffions , will probably take more delight in walking among the holly griffins , and yew sphinxes of the city gardener , than in ...
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There is little of human character in the poem , indced ; because Thalaba is a solitary wanderer from the folitary tent of his protector : But the home group , in which his infancy was spent , is pleasingly delineated ; and there is ...
There is little of human character in the poem , indced ; because Thalaba is a solitary wanderer from the folitary tent of his protector : But the home group , in which his infancy was spent , is pleasingly delineated ; and there is ...
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In such a vessel ne'er before Did human creature leave the shore . ' II . p . 72 . And then we are told , that if the sea should get rough , ' a bee . hive would be ship as safe . ' But say , what was it ? a poetical interlocutor is ...
In such a vessel ne'er before Did human creature leave the shore . ' II . p . 72 . And then we are told , that if the sea should get rough , ' a bee . hive would be ship as safe . ' But say , what was it ? a poetical interlocutor is ...
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The following amplification of the vulgar comparison of human life to a stream , has the merit of adding much obscurity to wordiness ; at least , we have not ingenuity enough to refer the anglobated bubbles and murmurs , and floating ...
The following amplification of the vulgar comparison of human life to a stream , has the merit of adding much obscurity to wordiness ; at least , we have not ingenuity enough to refer the anglobated bubbles and murmurs , and floating ...
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