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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... tion of Mr. Campbell's without pain . But , had not Mr. Campbell taste or discernment enough to perceive that his Last Man was not in accord- ance with nature ? We say , he had , but he sails with the current of fashion , -a current ...
... tion of Mr. Campbell's without pain . But , had not Mr. Campbell taste or discernment enough to perceive that his Last Man was not in accord- ance with nature ? We say , he had , but he sails with the current of fashion , -a current ...
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... tion is never so strong and active as in our youth , and a child can understand fairy tales and romantic fictions as clearly as a philosopher , or a man of the strongest intellectual powers . Imaginative productions , it is true , are ...
... tion is never so strong and active as in our youth , and a child can understand fairy tales and romantic fictions as clearly as a philosopher , or a man of the strongest intellectual powers . Imaginative productions , it is true , are ...
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... ; we mean , the greater portion of it ; namely , that portion which has no other merit than that of being the pure offspring of imagina- tion . Such poetry is only fit for children and OF THE LITERATURE OF THE AGE . xlvii.
... ; we mean , the greater portion of it ; namely , that portion which has no other merit than that of being the pure offspring of imagina- tion . Such poetry is only fit for children and OF THE LITERATURE OF THE AGE . xlvii.
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... tion . Such poetry is only fit for children and old men . Let our poets , therefore , take a different course , if they would be immortal . Let them , like Homer , Virgil , and Horace ; like Racine , Boileau , and Voltaire ; like ...
... tion . Such poetry is only fit for children and old men . Let our poets , therefore , take a different course , if they would be immortal . Let them , like Homer , Virgil , and Horace ; like Racine , Boileau , and Voltaire ; like ...
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... tion , that any change in this relation would only tend to render us more unhappy . Make us more knowing , we should become more presumptuous , more fastidi- ous , more sensible of pain : hence we should become less virtuous , and less ...
... tion , that any change in this relation would only tend to render us more unhappy . Make us more knowing , we should become more presumptuous , more fastidi- ous , more sensible of pain : hence we should become less virtuous , and less ...
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