Lectures on the English PoetsT. Miller, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... present suffering in the imaginary exaggeration of it ; exhausts the terror or pity by an unlimited indulgence of it ; grapples with impossibilities in its desperate im- patience of restraint ; throws us back upon the past , forward ...
... present suffering in the imaginary exaggeration of it ; exhausts the terror or pity by an unlimited indulgence of it ; grapples with impossibilities in its desperate im- patience of restraint ; throws us back upon the past , forward ...
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... presents , and that not the least interesting ; so poetry is one part of the history of the human mind , though it is neither science nor philosophy . It cannot be concealed , however , that the progress of knowledge and re- finement ...
... presents , and that not the least interesting ; so poetry is one part of the history of the human mind , though it is neither science nor philosophy . It cannot be concealed , however , that the progress of knowledge and re- finement ...
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... present we are less exposed to the vicissitudes of good or evil , to the incursions of wild beasts or " bandit fierce , " or to the unmitigated fury of the elements . The time has been that " our fell of hair would at a dismal treatise ...
... present we are less exposed to the vicissitudes of good or evil , to the incursions of wild beasts or " bandit fierce , " or to the unmitigated fury of the elements . The time has been that " our fell of hair would at a dismal treatise ...
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... present to every thing : " If we fly into the uttermost parts of the earth , it is there also ; if we turn to the east or the west , we cannot escape from it . " Man is thus aggrandised in the image of his Maker . The history of the ...
... present to every thing : " If we fly into the uttermost parts of the earth , it is there also ; if we turn to the east or the west , we cannot escape from it . " Man is thus aggrandised in the image of his Maker . The history of the ...
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... presents to the mind are not much in themselves , they want grandeur , beauty , and order ; but they become every thing by the force of the character he im- presses upon them . His mind lends its own power to the objects which it ...
... presents to the mind are not much in themselves , they want grandeur , beauty , and order ; but they become every thing by the force of the character he im- presses upon them . His mind lends its own power to the objects which it ...
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