Lectures on the English PoetsWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 páginas |
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... picture brings the matter nearer to us . It is not only the progress of mechanical knowledge , but the necessary advances of civilization , that are unfavourable to the spirit of poetry . We not only stand in less awe of the ...
... picture brings the matter nearer to us . It is not only the progress of mechanical knowledge , but the necessary advances of civilization , that are unfavourable to the spirit of poetry . We not only stand in less awe of the ...
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... picture is painted , all is over . Faces are the best part of a picture ; but even faces are not what we chiefly remember in what interests us most . --But it may be asked then , Is there anything better than Claude Lorraine's ...
... picture is painted , all is over . Faces are the best part of a picture ; but even faces are not what we chiefly remember in what interests us most . --But it may be asked then , Is there anything better than Claude Lorraine's ...
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... picture of the Shining Ones within the gates , with wings at their backs and garlands on their heads , who are to wipe all tears from his eyes ! The writer's genius , though not " dipped in dews of Castalie , " was baptised with the ...
... picture of the Shining Ones within the gates , with wings at their backs and garlands on their heads , who are to wipe all tears from his eyes ! The writer's genius , though not " dipped in dews of Castalie , " was baptised with the ...
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... picture . There is , indeed , one gigantic one , that of Count Ugolino , of which Michael Angelo made a bas- relief , and which Sir Joshua Reynolds ought not to have painted . Another writer whom I shall mention last , and whom I can ...
... picture . There is , indeed , one gigantic one , that of Count Ugolino , of which Michael Angelo made a bas- relief , and which Sir Joshua Reynolds ought not to have painted . Another writer whom I shall mention last , and whom I can ...
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... picture of the Shining Ones within the gates , with wings at their backs and garlands on their heads , who are to wipe all tears from his eyes ! The writer's genius , though not " dipped in dews of Castalie , " was baptised with the ...
... picture of the Shining Ones within the gates , with wings at their backs and garlands on their heads , who are to wipe all tears from his eyes ! The writer's genius , though not " dipped in dews of Castalie , " was baptised with the ...
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