Lectures on the English PoetsWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 páginas |
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... heart holds with nature and itself . He who has a contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself , or for anything else . It is not a mere frivolous accomplishment ( as some persons have been led to imagine , ) the trifling ...
... heart holds with nature and itself . He who has a contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself , or for anything else . It is not a mere frivolous accomplishment ( as some persons have been led to imagine , ) the trifling ...
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... heart , and finding out the last remaining image of respect or attachment in the bottom of his breast , only to torture and kill it ! In like manner , the " So I am " of Cordelia gushes from her heart like a torrent of tears , relieving ...
... heart , and finding out the last remaining image of respect or attachment in the bottom of his breast , only to torture and kill it ! In like manner , the " So I am " of Cordelia gushes from her heart like a torrent of tears , relieving ...
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... heart , To be discarded thence ! " One mode in which the dramatic exhibition of passion excites our sympathy without raising our disgust is that , in proportion as it sharpens the edge of calamity and disappointment , it strengthens the ...
... heart , To be discarded thence ! " One mode in which the dramatic exhibition of passion excites our sympathy without raising our disgust is that , in proportion as it sharpens the edge of calamity and disappointment , it strengthens the ...
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... heart , and rouses the whole man within us . The pleasure , however , derived from tragic poetry is not any- thing peculiar to it as poetry , as a fictitious and fanciful thing . It is not an anomaly of the imagination . It has its ...
... heart , and rouses the whole man within us . The pleasure , however , derived from tragic poetry is not any- thing peculiar to it as poetry , as a fictitious and fanciful thing . It is not an anomaly of the imagination . It has its ...
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... heart . They have not an in- forming principle within them . In their faultless excellence they appear sufficient to themselves . By their beauty they are raised above the frailties of passion or suffering . By their beauty they are ...
... heart . They have not an in- forming principle within them . In their faultless excellence they appear sufficient to themselves . By their beauty they are raised above the frailties of passion or suffering . By their beauty they are ...
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