Lectures on the English PoetsWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 páginas |
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... natural impression of any object or event , by its vividness exciting an involuntary movement of imagination and passion ... nature and itself . He who has a contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself , or for anything else ...
... natural impression of any object or event , by its vividness exciting an involuntary movement of imagination and passion ... nature and itself . He who has a contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself , or for anything else ...
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... natural man should spoil his mathematical man , who was to be without passions and affections , who was neither to ... nature . We shape things ac- cording 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 affections , who was neither to ... nature . We shape things ac- cording 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 natural , 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 natural , 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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... nature , as well as of the sensitive — of the desire to know , the will to act , and the power to feel ; and ought ... natural , is in this sense the least So , because it ap- peals almost exclusively to one of these faculties , our ...
... nature , as well as of the sensitive — of the desire to know , the will to act , and the power to feel ; and ought ... natural , is in this sense the least So , because it ap- peals almost exclusively to one of these faculties , our ...
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... nature , " seen through the medium of passion and imagination , not divested of that medium by means of literal truth or abstract reason . The painter of history might as well be required to represent the face of a person who has just ...
... nature , " seen through the medium of passion and imagination , not divested of that medium by means of literal truth or abstract reason . The painter of history might as well be required to represent the face of a person who has just ...
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