Idylls, Legends and LyricsK. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1890 - 277 pages |
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... mind when under the influence of love , each sonnet expressing a separate phase of that passion which is admitted to be the strongest of all human passions . Owing to the form of the verse , these eighteen sonnets are less a love story ...
... mind when under the influence of love , each sonnet expressing a separate phase of that passion which is admitted to be the strongest of all human passions . Owing to the form of the verse , these eighteen sonnets are less a love story ...
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... mind which is the design of poetry as of music , has been gained . True poetry , it has been said , pourtrays with terrible energy the excesses of the passions ; but they are passions which show a mighty nature ; which are full of power ...
... mind which is the design of poetry as of music , has been gained . True poetry , it has been said , pourtrays with terrible energy the excesses of the passions ; but they are passions which show a mighty nature ; which are full of power ...
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... mind , and it should appeal either to the imagination or the emotions . " Its true object " she observes , " is not obtained when it becomes chiefly the vehicle for philosophical or metaphysical instruction reaching only the reasoning ...
... mind , and it should appeal either to the imagination or the emotions . " Its true object " she observes , " is not obtained when it becomes chiefly the vehicle for philosophical or metaphysical instruction reaching only the reasoning ...
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... mind when under the influence of love . ' Each sonnet is an expression of the master passion , and is worthy the careful consideration of the reader . The reading of " Idylls , Legends , and Lyrics " has been most interesting and ...
... mind when under the influence of love . ' Each sonnet is an expression of the master passion , and is worthy the careful consideration of the reader . The reading of " Idylls , Legends , and Lyrics " has been most interesting and ...
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... mind such as hers would easily drift towards the writings of Sir Walter Scott . She has been influenced by that great writer far more than she would be likely to admit . George Eliot , Thackeray , and Dickens always had attrac- tions ...
... mind such as hers would easily drift towards the writings of Sir Walter Scott . She has been influenced by that great writer far more than she would be likely to admit . George Eliot , Thackeray , and Dickens always had attrac- tions ...
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