Lectures on Poetry and General Literature: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Longman, Rees, Orme, Browne, Green, & Longman, 1833 - 394 páginas |
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... passions as upon a lyre , and making him to feel as though he were holding converse with a spirit ; this is the art of Nature herself , invariably and perpetually pleasing , by a secret and undefinable charm , which lives through all ...
... passions as upon a lyre , and making him to feel as though he were holding converse with a spirit ; this is the art of Nature herself , invariably and perpetually pleasing , by a secret and undefinable charm , which lives through all ...
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... passion , pathos , and meaning of its movements ; for its harmonies are ever united with distinct feelings and emotions of the rational soul ; their associations are always clear and easily comprehensible : whereas music , when it is ...
... passion , pathos , and meaning of its movements ; for its harmonies are ever united with distinct feelings and emotions of the rational soul ; their associations are always clear and easily comprehensible : whereas music , when it is ...
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... passion , otherwise than in their beginnings and their results . This is not the place to discuss the question ; yet I know not how it can be doubted , that sculpture might legitimately essay , and victoriously achieve , the most daring ...
... passion , otherwise than in their beginnings and their results . This is not the place to discuss the question ; yet I know not how it can be doubted , that sculpture might legitimately essay , and victoriously achieve , the most daring ...
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... passions with ourselves , undergoing all the changes of actual existence , and presenting to the mind of the reader , solitary figures , or compli- cated groups , more easily retained ( for words are better recollected than shapen ...
... passions with ourselves , undergoing all the changes of actual existence , and presenting to the mind of the reader , solitary figures , or compli- cated groups , more easily retained ( for words are better recollected than shapen ...
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... the rude hut , " the " Da- cian mother , " the " young barbarians . " At length came the poet of passion ; and looking down upon C - " The dying Gladiator " ( less as what it NO . I. 25 THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY .
... the rude hut , " the " Da- cian mother , " the " young barbarians . " At length came the poet of passion ; and looking down upon C - " The dying Gladiator " ( less as what it NO . I. 25 THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY .
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