Lectures on the English PoetsT. Miller, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... human mind . It comes home to the bosoms and businesses of men ; for nothing but what so comes home to them in the most general and intelligible shape , can be a sub- ject for poetry . Poetry is the universal language which the heart ...
... human mind . It comes home to the bosoms and businesses of men ; for nothing but what so comes home to them in the most general and intelligible shape , can be a sub- ject for poetry . Poetry is the universal language which the heart ...
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... human life . When Lear says of Edgar , " Nothing but his unkind daughters could have brought him to this ; " what a bewildered amazement , what a wrench of the imagination , that cannot be brought to conceive of any other cause of ...
... human life . When Lear says of Edgar , " Nothing but his unkind daughters could have brought him to this ; " what a bewildered amazement , what a wrench of the imagination , that cannot be brought to conceive of any other cause of ...
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... the magnitude of the loss . The storm of passion lays bare and shews us the rich depths of the human soul : the whole of our existence , the 1 sum total of our passions and pursuits , of that ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 11.
... the magnitude of the loss . The storm of passion lays bare and shews us the rich depths of the human soul : the whole of our existence , the 1 sum total of our passions and pursuits , of that ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 11.
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... human life ; tugs at the heart- strings ; loosens the pressure about them ; and calls the springs of thought and feeling into play with tenfold force . Impassioned poetry is an emanation of the moral and intellectual part of our nature ...
... human life ; tugs at the heart- strings ; loosens the pressure about them ; and calls the springs of thought and feeling into play with tenfold force . Impassioned poetry is an emanation of the moral and intellectual part of our nature ...
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... human mind , though it is neither science nor philosophy . It cannot be concealed , however , that the progress of knowledge and re- finement has a tendency to circumscribe the limits of the imagination , and to clip the wings of poetry ...
... human mind , though it is neither science nor philosophy . It cannot be concealed , however , that the progress of knowledge and re- finement has a tendency to circumscribe the limits of the imagination , and to clip the wings of poetry ...
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