Lectures on the English PoetsWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 páginas |
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... sense of beauty , or power , or harmony , as in the motion of a wave of the sea , in the growth of a flower , that " spreads its sweet leaves to the air , and dedi- cates its beauty to the sun , " - there is poetry , in its birth . If ...
... sense of beauty , or power , or harmony , as in the motion of a wave of the sea , in the growth of a flower , that " spreads its sweet leaves to the air , and dedi- cates its beauty to the sun , " - there is poetry , in its birth . If ...
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... sense , nor analyze the distinctions of the understanding , but signifies the excess of the imagination beyond the actual or ordinary impression of any object or feeling . The poetical im- pression of any object is that uneasy ...
... sense , nor analyze the distinctions of the understanding , but signifies the excess of the imagination beyond the actual or ordinary impression of any object or feeling . The poetical im- pression of any object is that uneasy ...
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... sense of personal beauty , a more lus- trous effect to the imagination than the purest gold . We compare a man of gigantic stature to a tower : not that he is anything like so large , but because the excess of his size beyond what we ...
... sense of personal beauty , a more lus- trous effect to the imagination than the purest gold . We compare a man of gigantic stature to a tower : not that he is anything like so large , but because the excess of his size beyond what we ...
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... sense the least So , because it ap- peals almost exclusively to one of these faculties , our sensibility . The tragedies of Moore and Lillo , for this reason , however affect- ing at the time , oppress and lie like a dead weight upon ...
... sense the least So , because it ap- peals almost exclusively to one of these faculties , our sensibility . The tragedies of Moore and Lillo , for this reason , however affect- ing at the time , oppress and lie like a dead weight upon ...
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... sense of power is as strong a principle in the mind as the love of pleasure . Objects of terror and pity exercise the same despotic control over it as those of love or beauty . It is as natural to hate as to love , to de- spise as to ...
... sense of power is as strong a principle in the mind as the love of pleasure . Objects of terror and pity exercise the same despotic control over it as those of love or beauty . It is as natural to hate as to love , to de- spise as to ...
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