Lectures on the English PoetsT. Miller, 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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... natural man should spoil his mathematical man , who was to be without passions and affections , who was neither to ... nature . We shape things according to our wishes and fancies , without poetry ; but poetry is the most emphatical ...
... natural man should spoil his mathematical man , who was to be without passions and affections , who was neither to ... nature . We shape things according to our wishes and fancies , without poetry ; but poetry is the most emphatical ...
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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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