Lectures on the English PoetsWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 páginas |
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... presents objects , not as they are in themselves , but as they are moulded , by other thoughts and feelings , into an infinite variety of shapes and combinations of power . This language is not the less true to nature because it is ...
... presents objects , not as they are in themselves , but as they are moulded , by other thoughts and feelings , into an infinite variety of shapes and combinations of power . This language is not the less true to nature because it is ...
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... force of comparison or contrast ; loses the sense of present suffer- ing in the imaginary exaggeration of it ; exhausts the terror or pity by an unlimited indulgence of it ; grapples with LECTURE 1. ] 5 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... force of comparison or contrast ; loses the sense of present suffer- ing in the imaginary exaggeration of it ; exhausts the terror or pity by an unlimited indulgence of it ; grapples with LECTURE 1. ] 5 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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... presents , and that not the least interesting ; so poetry is one part of the history of the hu- man mind , though it is neither science nor philosophy . It can- not be concealed , however , that the progress of knowledge and refinement ...
... presents , and that not the least interesting ; so poetry is one part of the history of the hu- man mind , though it is neither science nor philosophy . It can- not be concealed , however , that the progress of knowledge and refinement ...
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... present we are less exposed to the vicissitudes of good or evil , to the incursions of wild beasts or " bandit fierce , " or to the un- mitigated fury of the elements . The time has been that " our fell of hair would at a dismal ...
... present we are less exposed to the vicissitudes of good or evil , to the incursions of wild beasts or " bandit fierce , " or to the un- mitigated fury of the elements . The time has been that " our fell of hair would at a dismal ...
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... present to everything : " If we fly into the uttermost parts of the earth , it is there also ; if we turn to the east or the west , we cannot es- cape from it . " Man is thus aggrandized in the image of his Maker . The history of the ...
... present to everything : " If we fly into the uttermost parts of the earth , it is there also ; if we turn to the east or the west , we cannot es- cape from it . " Man is thus aggrandized in the image of his Maker . The history of the ...
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