Lectures on the English PoetsT. Miller, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... painted , all is over . Faces are the best part of a picture ; but even faces are not what we chiefly remember in what interests us most . - But it may be asked then , Is there any thing better than Claude Lorraine's landscapes , than ...
... painted , all is over . Faces are the best part of a picture ; but even faces are not what we chiefly remember in what interests us most . - But it may be asked then , Is there any thing better than Claude Lorraine's landscapes , than ...
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... indeed , one gigantic one , that of Count Ugolino , of which Michael Angelo made a bas - relief , and which Sir Joshua Reynolds ought not to have painted . Another writer whom I shall mention last , and whom 36 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... indeed , one gigantic one , that of Count Ugolino , of which Michael Angelo made a bas - relief , and which Sir Joshua Reynolds ought not to have painted . Another writer whom I shall mention last , and whom 36 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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... painted on the wall , is this one : " The statue of Mars upon a carte stood Armed , and looked grim as he were wood . A wolf ther stood beforne him at his fete With eyen red , and of a man he ete . " The story of Griselda is in ...
... painted on the wall , is this one : " The statue of Mars upon a carte stood Armed , and looked grim as he were wood . A wolf ther stood beforne him at his fete With eyen red , and of a man he ete . " The story of Griselda is in ...
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... paint- ing describes what the object is in itself , poetry what it implies or suggests . Chaucer's poetry is not , in general , the best confirmation of the truth of this distinction , for his poetry is more picturesque and historical ...
... paint- ing describes what the object is in itself , poetry what it implies or suggests . Chaucer's poetry is not , in general , the best confirmation of the truth of this distinction , for his poetry is more picturesque and historical ...
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... painted dragon , and think it will strangle them in its shining folds . This is very idle . If they do not meddle with the alle- gory , the allegory will not meddle with them . Without minding it at all , the whole is as plain ' as a ...
... painted dragon , and think it will strangle them in its shining folds . This is very idle . If they do not meddle with the alle- gory , the allegory will not meddle with them . Without minding it at all , the whole is as plain ' as a ...
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