Lectures on the English Poets, and the English Comic WritersBell, 1869 - 232 páginas |
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... tion and the passions are a part of man's nature . We shape things according to our wishes and fancies , without poetry ; but poetry is the most emphatical language that can be found for those creations of the mind " which ecstasy is ...
... tion and the passions are a part of man's nature . We shape things according to our wishes and fancies , without poetry ; but poetry is the most emphatical language that can be found for those creations of the mind " which ecstasy is ...
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... tion or fear , and the imagination will distort or magnify the object , and convert it into the likeness of whatever is most proper to encourage the fear . " Our eyes are made the fools " of our other faculties . This is the universal ...
... tion or fear , and the imagination will distort or magnify the object , and convert it into the likeness of whatever is most proper to encourage the fear . " Our eyes are made the fools " of our other faculties . This is the universal ...
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... tion and the passions , of fancy and will . Nothing , there- fore , can be more absurd than the outcry which has been sometimes raised by frigid and pedantic critics for reducing the language of poetry to the standard of common sense ...
... tion and the passions , of fancy and will . Nothing , there- fore , can be more absurd than the outcry which has been sometimes raised by frigid and pedantic critics for reducing the language of poetry to the standard of common sense ...
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... tion that the Greek statues are little else than specious forms . They are marble to the touch and to the heart . They have not an informing principle within them . In their faultless excellence they appear sufficient to them- selves ...
... tion that the Greek statues are little else than specious forms . They are marble to the touch and to the heart . They have not an informing principle within them . In their faultless excellence they appear sufficient to them- selves ...
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... tion . Dante was the father of modern poetry , and he may therefore claim a place in this connection . His poem is the first great step from Gothic darkness and barbarism ; and the struggle of thought in it to burst the thraldom in ...
... tion . Dante was the father of modern poetry , and he may therefore claim a place in this connection . His poem is the first great step from Gothic darkness and barbarism ; and the struggle of thought in it to burst the thraldom in ...
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