Lectures on the English Poets, and the English Comic WritersBell, 1869 - 232 páginas |
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... principles of poetry , act upon them all our lives , like Molière's Bourgeois Gentil- homme , who had always spoken prose without knowing it . The child is a poet , in fact , when he first plays at Hide- and - seek , or repeats the ...
... principles of poetry , act upon them all our lives , like Molière's Bourgeois Gentil- homme , who had always spoken prose without knowing it . The child is a poet , in fact , when he first plays at Hide- and - seek , or repeats the ...
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... principle in the mind as the love of pleasure . Objects of terror and pity exercise the same despotic control over it as those of love or beauty . It is as natural to hate as to love , to despise as to admire , to express our hatred or ...
... principle in the mind as the love of pleasure . Objects of terror and pity exercise the same despotic control over it as those of love or beauty . It is as natural to hate as to love , to despise as to admire , to express our hatred or ...
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... principles of government are carried still further in theory and practice , we find that the Beggar's Opera is hooted from the stage . Society , by degrees , is constructed into a machine that carries us safely and insipidly from one ...
... principles of government are carried still further in theory and practice , we find that the Beggar's Opera is hooted from the stage . Society , by degrees , is constructed into a machine that carries us safely and insipidly from one ...
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... principle within them . In their faultless excellence they appear sufficient to them- selves . By their beauty they are raised above the frailties of passion or suffering . By their beauty they are deified . But they are not objects of ...
... principle within them . In their faultless excellence they appear sufficient to them- selves . By their beauty they are raised above the frailties of passion or suffering . By their beauty they are deified . But they are not objects of ...
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... principle of natural imitation , or cor- respondence to the individual ideas or to the tone of feel- ing with which they are conveyed to others . The jerks , the breaks , the inequalities and harshnesses of prose are fatal to the flow ...
... principle of natural imitation , or cor- respondence to the individual ideas or to the tone of feel- ing with which they are conveyed to others . The jerks , the breaks , the inequalities and harshnesses of prose are fatal to the flow ...
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