Lectures on the English Poets, and the English Comic WritersBell, 1869 - 232 páginas |
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... describes the flowing , not the fixed . It does not define the limits of sense , or analyse the distinctions of the understanding , but signifies the excess of the imagination beyond the actual or ordinary impression of any object or ...
... describes the flowing , not the fixed . It does not define the limits of sense , or analyse the distinctions of the understanding , but signifies the excess of the imagination beyond the actual or ordinary impression of any object or ...
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... describing natural objects , it impregnates sensible impressions with the forms of fancy , so it de- scribes the feelings of pleasure or pain , by blending them . with the strongest movements of passion , and the most striking forms of ...
... describing natural objects , it impregnates sensible impressions with the forms of fancy , so it de- scribes the feelings of pleasure or pain , by blending them . with the strongest movements of passion , and the most striking forms of ...
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... describe the most striking and vivid impressions which things can be supposed to make upon the mind , in the language of common conver- sation . Let who will strip nature of the colours and the shapes of fancy , the poet is not bound to ...
... describe the most striking and vivid impressions which things can be supposed to make upon the mind , in the language of common conver- sation . Let who will strip nature of the colours and the shapes of fancy , the poet is not bound to ...
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... describes his heroes going to battle with a prodigality of life , arising from an exuberance of animal spirits : we see them before us , their number and their order of battle , poured out upon the plain " all plumed like ostriches ...
... describes his heroes going to battle with a prodigality of life , arising from an exuberance of animal spirits : we see them before us , their number and their order of battle , poured out upon the plain " all plumed like ostriches ...
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... describes persons and things that he had known and been intimately concerned in ; the same opportunities , operating on a dif- ferently - constituted frame , only served to alienate Spenser's mind the more from the " close - pent - up ...
... describes persons and things that he had known and been intimately concerned in ; the same opportunities , operating on a dif- ferently - constituted frame , only served to alienate Spenser's mind the more from the " close - pent - up ...
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