Essays, Letters from AbroadMoxon, 1845 - 164 pages |
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... sense , but of infinity in the immaterial one . Such ideas are , in some degree , developed in his poem entitled " Heaven : " and when he makes one of the interlocutors exclaim , " Peace ! the abyss is wreathed in scorn Of thy ...
... sense , but of infinity in the immaterial one . Such ideas are , in some degree , developed in his poem entitled " Heaven : " and when he makes one of the interlocutors exclaim , " Peace ! the abyss is wreathed in scorn Of thy ...
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... sense , may be defined to be " the expression of the imagination : " and poetry is connate with the origin of man . Man is an instrument over which a series of external and internal impressions are driven , like the alterna- tions of an ...
... sense , may be defined to be " the expression of the imagination : " and poetry is connate with the origin of man . Man is an instrument over which a series of external and internal impressions are driven , like the alterna- tions of an ...
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... sense of an approximation to this order has been 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 ...
... sense of an approximation to this order has been 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 ...
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... sense expresses those arrangements of language , and especially metrical language , which are created by that imperial faculty , whose throne is curtained within the invisible nature of man . And this springs from the nature itself of ...
... sense expresses those arrangements of language , and especially metrical language , which are created by that imperial faculty , whose throne is curtained within the invisible nature of man . And this springs from the nature itself of ...
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... sense : all language , institution and form , require not only to be produced but to be sustained the office and character of a poet participates in the divine nature as regards provi- dence , no less than as regards creation ...
... sense : all language , institution and form , require not only to be produced but to be sustained the office and character of a poet participates in the divine nature as regards provi- dence , no less than as regards creation ...
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