Lectures on the English Poets, and the English Comic WritersBell, 1869 - 232 páginas |
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... mean or dignified , delightful or distressing . It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have , and of which we cannot get rid in any other way , that gives an instant " satisfaction to the thought ...
... mean or dignified , delightful or distressing . It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have , and of which we cannot get rid in any other way , that gives an instant " satisfaction to the thought ...
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... means of literal truth or abstract reason . The painter of history might as well be required to represent the face of a person who has just trod upon a serpent with the still - life expression of a common portrait , as the poet to ...
... means of literal truth or abstract reason . The painter of history might as well be required to represent the face of a person who has just trod upon a serpent with the still - life expression of a common portrait , as the poet to ...
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... mean to give any preference , but it should seem that the argument which has been sometimes set up , that painting must affect the imagination more strongly , because it represents the image more distinctly , is not well founded . We ...
... mean to give any preference , but it should seem that the argument which has been sometimes set up , that painting must affect the imagination more strongly , because it represents the image more distinctly , is not well founded . We ...
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... mean . will take the following from the Knight's Tale . The distress of Arcite , in consequence of his banishment from his love , is thus described : " Whan that Arcite to Thebes comen was , Ful oft a day he swelt and said Alas , I For ...
... mean . will take the following from the Knight's Tale . The distress of Arcite , in consequence of his banishment from his love , is thus described : " Whan that Arcite to Thebes comen was , Ful oft a day he swelt and said Alas , I For ...
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... means of improving it , which remain in full force to the present day . * Spenser died at an obscure inn in London , it is supposed in distressed cir- cumstances . The treatment he received from Burleigh is well known . Spenser , as ...
... means of improving it , which remain in full force to the present day . * Spenser died at an obscure inn in London , it is supposed in distressed cir- cumstances . The treatment he received from Burleigh is well known . Spenser , as ...
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