Lectures on the English Poets, and the English Comic WritersBell, 1869 - 232 páginas |
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... 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 describe the most ...
... 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 describe the most ...
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... truth of fiction ! What deep feeling in the description of Christian's swimming across the water at last , and in the picture of the Shining Ones within the gates , with wings at their backs 18 On Poetry in General .
... truth of fiction ! What deep feeling in the description of Christian's swimming across the water at last , and in the picture of the Shining Ones within the gates , with wings at their backs 18 On Poetry in General .
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... truth and feeling in Richardson ; but it is extracted from a caput mortuum of circumstances : it does not evaporate of itself . His poetical genius is like Ariel confined in a pine tree , and requires an artificial process to let it out ...
... truth and feeling in Richardson ; but it is extracted from a caput mortuum of circumstances : it does not evaporate of itself . His poetical genius is like Ariel confined in a pine tree , and requires an artificial process to let it out ...
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... truth , their 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 ...
... truth , their 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 ...
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... truth . He exhibits for the most part the naked object , with little drapery thrown over it . His metaphors , which are few , are not for ornament , but use , and as like as possible to the things themselves . He does not affect to show ...
... truth . He exhibits for the most part the naked object , with little drapery thrown over it . His metaphors , which are few , are not for ornament , but use , and as like as possible to the things themselves . He does not affect to show ...
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