Lectures on the English Poets, and the English Comic WritersBell, 1869 - 232 páginas |
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... force of comparison or contrast : loses the sense of present suffering in the imaginary exaggeration of it : exhausts the terror or pity by an unlimited indulgence of it grapples with impossibilities in its desperate im- patience of ...
... force of comparison or contrast : loses the sense of present suffering in the imaginary exaggeration of it : exhausts the terror or pity by an unlimited indulgence of it grapples with impossibilities in its desperate im- patience of ...
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... force . Impassioned poetry is an emanation of the moral and intellectual part of our nature , as well as of the sensitive— of the desire to know , the will to act , and the power to feel ; and ought to appeal to these different parts of ...
... force . Impassioned poetry is an emanation of the moral and intellectual part of our nature , as well as of the sensitive— of the desire to know , the will to act , and the power to feel ; and ought to appeal to these different parts of ...
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... force and variety . His poetry is , like his religion , the poetry of number and form : he describes the bodies as well as the souls of men . The poetry of the Bible is that of imagination and of faith it is abstract and disembodied ...
... force and variety . His poetry is , like his religion , the poetry of number and form : he describes the bodies as well as the souls of men . The poetry of the Bible is that of imagination and of faith it is abstract and disembodied ...
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... force of the character he impresses upon them . His mind lends its own power to the objects which it contemplates , instead of borrowing it from them . He takes advantage even of the nakedness and dreary vacuity of his subject . His ...
... force of the character he impresses upon them . His mind lends its own power to the objects which it contemplates , instead of borrowing it from them . He takes advantage even of the nakedness and dreary vacuity of his subject . His ...
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... force to his power of observation . The picturesque and the dramatic are in him closely blended together , and hardly distinguishable ; for he principally describes external ap- pearances as indicating character , as symbols of internal ...
... force to his power of observation . The picturesque and the dramatic are in him closely blended together , and hardly distinguishable ; for he principally describes external ap- pearances as indicating character , as symbols of internal ...
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