Essays, Letters from AbroadMoxon, 1845 - 164 pages |
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... called the " Monthly Repository ; " and the mere English reader must feel deeply obliged to the learned translator . But these abstracts are defective from their very form of abridgment ; and , though I am averse to speak disparagingly ...
... called the " Monthly Repository ; " and the mere English reader must feel deeply obliged to the learned translator . But these abstracts are defective from their very form of abridgment ; and , though I am averse to speak disparagingly ...
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... called reason and imagination , the former may be considered as mind contemplating the relations borne by one thought to another , however produced ; and the latter , as mind acting upon those thoughts so as to colour them with its own ...
... called reason and imagination , the former may be considered as mind contemplating the relations borne by one thought to another , however produced ; and the latter , as mind acting upon those thoughts so as to colour them with its own ...
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... called taste by modern writers . Every man in the infancy of art , observes an order which approximates more or less closely to that from which this highest delight results : but the diver- sity is not sufficiently marked , as that its ...
... called taste by modern writers . Every man in the infancy of art , observes an order which approximates more or less closely to that from which this highest delight results : but the diver- sity is not sufficiently marked , as that its ...
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... called poetry by that figure of speech which considers the effect as a synonyme of the cause . ( But poetry in a more restricted sense expresses those arrangements of language , and especially metrical language , which are created by ...
... called poetry by that figure of speech which considers the effect as a synonyme of the cause . ( But poetry in a more restricted sense expresses those arrangements of language , and especially metrical language , which are created by ...
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... called the moths of just history ; they eat out the poetry of it . A story of particular facts is as a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful : poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted ...
... called the moths of just history ; they eat out the poetry of it . A story of particular facts is as a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful : poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted ...
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