Lectures on the English Poets, and the English Comic WritersBell, 1869 - 232 páginas |
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... better reality . Ariosto has described the loves of Angelica and Medoro : but was not Medoro , who carved the name of his mistress on the barks of trees , as much enamoured of her charms as he ? Homer has celebrated the anger of ...
... better reality . Ariosto has described the loves of Angelica and Medoro : but was not Medoro , who carved the name of his mistress on the barks of trees , as much enamoured of her charms as he ? Homer has celebrated the anger of ...
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... better than Claude Lorraine's landscapes , than Titian's portraits , than Raphael's cartoons , or the Greek statues ? Of the two first I shall say nothing , as they are evidently picturesque rather than imaginative . Raphael's cartoons ...
... better than Claude Lorraine's landscapes , than Titian's portraits , than Raphael's cartoons , or the Greek statues ? Of the two first I shall say nothing , as they are evidently picturesque rather than imaginative . Raphael's cartoons ...
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... better . What is mechanical , reducible to rule , or capable of demonstration , is progressive , and admits of gradual improvement : what is not mechanical , or definite , but depends on feeling , taste , and genius , very soon becomes ...
... better . What is mechanical , reducible to rule , or capable of demonstration , is progressive , and admits of gradual improvement : what is not mechanical , or definite , but depends on feeling , taste , and genius , very soon becomes ...
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... better than his comedies , because tragedy is better than comedy . His female characters , which have been found fault with as insipid , are the finest in the world . Lastly , Shakspeare was the least of a coxcomb of any one that ever ...
... better than his comedies , because tragedy is better than comedy . His female characters , which have been found fault with as insipid , are the finest in the world . Lastly , Shakspeare was the least of a coxcomb of any one that ever ...
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... better . Such passages are like demonstrations of natural history . Instances might be multiplied without end . We might be tempted to suppose that the vividness , with which he describes visible objects , was owing to their having ...
... better . Such passages are like demonstrations of natural history . Instances might be multiplied without end . We might be tempted to suppose that the vividness , with which he describes visible objects , was owing to their having ...
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