Lectures on the English PoetsWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 páginas |
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... pleasure or pain to the human mind . It comes home to the bosoms and businesses of men ; for nothing but what so comes home to them in the most general and intelligible shape can be a subject for poetry . Poetry is the universal ...
... pleasure or pain to the human mind . It comes home to the bosoms and businesses of men ; for nothing but what so comes home to them in the most general and intelligible shape can be a subject for poetry . Poetry is the universal ...
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... pleasure by expressing it in the bold- est manner , and by the most striking examples of the same quali- ty in other instances . Poetry , according to Lord Bacon , for this reason , " has something divine in it , because it raises the ...
... pleasure by expressing it in the bold- est manner , and by the most striking examples of the same quali- ty in other instances . Poetry , according to Lord Bacon , for this reason , " has something divine in it , because it raises the ...
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... 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 source and ground - work in the common love of strong ...
... 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 source and ground - work in the common love of strong ...
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... pleasurable or painful , mean or dignified , delightful or distressing . It is the perfect coincidence of the im- age and the words with the feeling we have , and of which we cannot get rid in any other way , that gives an instant ...
... pleasurable or painful , mean or dignified , delightful or distressing . It is the perfect coincidence of the im- age and the words with the feeling we have , and of which we cannot get rid in any other way , that gives an instant ...
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... pleasure . He is contented to find grace and beauty in truth . He exhibits for the most part the naked object , with little drapery thrown over it . His metaphors , which are few , are not for ornament , but use , and as like as ...
... pleasure . He is contented to find grace and beauty in truth . He exhibits for the most part the naked object , with little drapery thrown over it . His metaphors , which are few , are not for ornament , but use , and as like as ...
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