The Beauties of Modern Literature, in Verse and Prose: To which is Prefixed, a Preliminary View of the Literature of the AgeSherwood, Jones, and Company, 1824 - 484 páginas The preliminary view is chiefly a comparison of classical and romantic poetry. |
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Página ix
... genius attained it ; so that , in selecting their beauties , it would not always be easy to determine , what to reject , and what to select , each part being so carefully finished , and touched with so delicate a hand , that if all were ...
... genius attained it ; so that , in selecting their beauties , it would not always be easy to determine , what to reject , and what to select , each part being so carefully finished , and touched with so delicate a hand , that if all were ...
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... genius from the tame correctness of acquired sapience , and the prosing uniformity of laborious dulness . This was the origin of the romantic school . No theory could be more specious , none better calculated to deceive ; nor could any ...
... genius from the tame correctness of acquired sapience , and the prosing uniformity of laborious dulness . This was the origin of the romantic school . No theory could be more specious , none better calculated to deceive ; nor could any ...
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... of Eng- lish literature , that it teems with the most exquisite productions of taste , and the most luxuriant fruits of original genius , that every subject which ranges within the b2 OF THE LITERATURE OF THE Age . xi.
... of Eng- lish literature , that it teems with the most exquisite productions of taste , and the most luxuriant fruits of original genius , that every subject which ranges within the b2 OF THE LITERATURE OF THE Age . xi.
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... genius , that every subject which ranges within the career of rigid science , is analyzed with that metaphysical , critical , and philosophic acumen , which place us far above all former ages , in the sciences , universal literature ...
... genius , that every subject which ranges within the career of rigid science , is analyzed with that metaphysical , critical , and philosophic acumen , which place us far above all former ages , in the sciences , universal literature ...
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... destructive of infantine simplicity . We admit that the cultivation of letters cannot create a genius for poetry , but what poet ever became immortal with- out knowing all that the literature of his age and xxvi PRELIMINARY VIEW.
... destructive of infantine simplicity . We admit that the cultivation of letters cannot create a genius for poetry , but what poet ever became immortal with- out knowing all that the literature of his age and xxvi PRELIMINARY VIEW.
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