Lectures on the English PoetsJ. Templeman, 1841 - 407 páginas |
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... truth or abstract reason . The pain- ter of history might as well be required to re- 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 ...
... truth or abstract reason . The pain- ter of history might as well be required to re- 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 ...
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... truth of fiction ! What deep feeling in the descrip- tion of Christian's swimming across the water at last , and in the picture of the Shining Ones within the gates , with wings at their backs and garlands on their heads , who are to ...
... truth of fiction ! What deep feeling in the descrip- tion of Christian's swimming across the water at last , and in the picture of the Shining Ones within the gates , with wings at their backs and garlands on their heads , who are to ...
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... truth and feel- ing in Richardson ; but it is extracted from a caput mortuum of circumstances : it does not evaporate of itself . His poetical genius is like Ariel confined in a pine - tree , and requires an artificial process to let it ...
... truth and feel- ing in Richardson ; but it is extracted from a caput mortuum of circumstances : it does not evaporate of itself . His poetical genius is like Ariel confined in a pine - tree , and requires an artificial process to let it ...
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... things in Homer is wonderful ; their splendour , their truth , their force , and variety . His poetry is , like his religion , the poetry of number and form : he describes the bodies as well as the ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 31.
... things in Homer is wonderful ; their splendour , their truth , their force , and variety . His poetry is , like his religion , the poetry of number and form : he describes the bodies as well as the ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 31.
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... truth . He exhibits for the most part the naked object , with little drapery thrown over it . His me- taphors , which are few , are not for ornament , but use , and as like as possible to the things themselves . He does not affect to ...
... truth . He exhibits for the most part the naked object , with little drapery thrown over it . His me- taphors , which are few , are not for ornament , but use , and as like as possible to the things themselves . He does not affect to ...
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