Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... nature and itself . He who has a contempt for poetry , cannot have much respect for himself , or for any thing else . It is not a mere frivolous accomplishment , ( as some per- sons have been led to imagine ) the trifling amuse- ment of ...
... nature and itself . He who has a contempt for poetry , cannot have much respect for himself , or for any thing else . It is not a mere frivolous accomplishment , ( as some per- sons have been led to imagine ) the trifling amuse- ment of ...
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... nature , because it is false in point of fact ; but so much the more true and natural , if it conveys the impression which the object under the influence of passion makes on the mind . Let an object , for instance , be presented to the ...
... nature , because it is false in point of fact ; but so much the more true and natural , if it conveys the impression which the object under the influence of passion makes on the mind . Let an object , for instance , be presented to the ...
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... nature . Tragic poetry , which is the most impassioned species of it , strives to carry on the feeling to the utmost point of sub- limity or pathos , by all the force of comparison or contrast ; loses the sense of present suffering in ...
... nature . Tragic poetry , which is the most impassioned species of it , strives to carry on the feeling to the utmost point of sub- limity or pathos , by all the force of comparison or contrast ; loses the sense of present suffering in ...
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... nature , as well as of the sensitive - of the desire to know , the will to act , and the power to feel ; and ought ... natural , is in this sense the least so , because it appeals almost ex- clusively to one of these faculties , our ...
... nature , as well as of the sensitive - of the desire to know , the will to act , and the power to feel ; and ought ... natural , is in this sense the least so , because it appeals almost ex- clusively to one of these faculties , our ...
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... nature , " seen through the medium of passion and imagination , not divested of that medium by means of literal truth or abstract rea- son . The painter of history might as well be re- quired to represent the face of a person who has ...
... nature , " seen through the medium of passion and imagination , not divested of that medium by means of literal truth or abstract rea- son . The painter of history might as well be re- quired to represent the face of a person who has ...
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Página 279 - The effect of reading this old ballad is as if all our hopes and fears hung upon the last fibre of the heart, and we felt that giving way. What silence, what loneliness, what leisure for grief and despair '. ' My father pressed me sair, my mother didna speak. But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break.