Lectures on the English Poets, and the English Comic WritersBell, 1869 - 232 páginas |
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... critics for reducing the language of poetry to the standard of common sense and reason : for the end and use of poetry , " both at the first and now , was and is to hold the mirror up to nature , " seen through the medium of passion and ...
... critics for reducing the language of poetry to the standard of common sense and reason : for the end and use of poetry , " both at the first and now , was and is to hold the mirror up to nature , " seen through the medium of passion and ...
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... little things , * The " Hercules Furens " of Euripides . But as to the pre - eminent beauty and merit of this tragedy critics are at variance . - ED . by incessant labour and calls upon the attention , by On Poetry in General . 19.
... little things , * The " Hercules Furens " of Euripides . But as to the pre - eminent beauty and merit of this tragedy critics are at variance . - ED . by incessant labour and calls upon the attention , by On Poetry in General . 19.
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... criticism , in chemistry , in mechanics , in geometry , astronomy , & c . , i . e . in things depending on mere inquiry and experiment or on absolute demonstration , have been led hastily to conclude that there was a general tendency in ...
... criticism , in chemistry , in mechanics , in geometry , astronomy , & c . , i . e . in things depending on mere inquiry and experiment or on absolute demonstration , have been led hastily to conclude that there was a general tendency in ...
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... critic , that Shak- speare was distinguished from the other dramatic writers of his day only by his wit ; that they had all his other qualities but that ; that one writer had as much sense , another as much fancy , another as much ...
... critic , that Shak- speare was distinguished from the other dramatic writers of his day only by his wit ; that they had all his other qualities but that ; that one writer had as much sense , another as much fancy , another as much ...
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... criticism , that his ideas were musical rather than picturesque , as if , because they were in the highest degree musical , they must be ( to keep the sage critical balance even , and to allow no one man to possess two qualities at the ...
... criticism , that his ideas were musical rather than picturesque , as if , because they were in the highest degree musical , they must be ( to keep the sage critical balance even , and to allow no one man to possess two qualities at the ...
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