Lectures on the English PoetsJ. Templeman, 1841 - 407 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 persons have been led to imagine ) , the trifling amusement of a few ...
... 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 persons have been led to imagine ) , the trifling amusement of a few ...
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... natural man should spoil his mathematical man , who was to be without passions and affec- tions , 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 affec- tions , 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 na- tural , 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 na- tural , 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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... natural objects , it impregnates sensible impressions with the forms of fancy , so it describes the feelings of pleasure or pain , by blending them with the strongest movements of passion ... nature . Tragic poetry 8 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... natural objects , it impregnates sensible impressions with the forms of fancy , so it describes the feelings of pleasure or pain , by blending them with the strongest movements of passion ... nature . Tragic poetry 8 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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... nature in startling review before us ; and , in the rapid whirl of events , lifts us from the depths of woe to the highest contemplations on human life . When Lear says , of Edgar , " Nothing but his unkind daughters could have brought ...
... nature in startling review before us ; and , in the rapid whirl of events , lifts us from the depths of woe to the highest contemplations on human life . When Lear says , of Edgar , " Nothing but his unkind daughters could have brought ...
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