Lectures on the English PoetsJ. Templeman, 1841 - 407 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 impa- tience 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 impa- tience of restraint ; throws us back upon the past , forward ...
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... present the face of a person who has just trod upon a serpent with the still - life expression of a common portrait , as the poet to describe the most striking and vivid impressions which things can be supposed to make upon the mind in ...
... present the face of a person who has just trod upon a serpent with the still - life expression of a common portrait , as the poet to describe the most striking and vivid impressions which things can be supposed to make upon the mind in ...
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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 philo- sophy . It cannot be concealed , however , that the progress of knowledge and refinement ...
... 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 philo- sophy . It cannot be concealed , however , that the progress of knowledge and refinement ...
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... present we are less exposed to the vicissitudes of good or evil , to the incur- sions 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 ...
... present we are less exposed to the vicissitudes of good or evil , to the incur- sions 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 ...
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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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