Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient RomeLongmans, Green, and Company, 1920 - 923 pages |
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... produce an illusion on the im- agination , the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours ... produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhap- sodist ...
... produce an illusion on the im- agination , the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours ... produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhap- sodist ...
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... produced , not so much by what it expresses , as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas which it directly ... produce upon us an effect wholly independent of their intrinsic value . One trans- ports us back to a remote period of ...
... produced , not so much by what it expresses , as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas which it directly ... produce upon us an effect wholly independent of their intrinsic value . One trans- ports us back to a remote period of ...
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... produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter or the entrance of a scene - shifter . Hence it was , that the ... produce an illusion . Euripides attempted to carry the reform further . But it was a task far beyond his powers , perhaps ...
... produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter or the entrance of a scene - shifter . Hence it was , that the ... produce an illusion . Euripides attempted to carry the reform further . But it was a task far beyond his powers , perhaps ...
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... produce for a single moment a deception on the imagination . : Of all the poets who have introduced into their works ... produced , in a few centuries , the innumerable crowd of Gods and Goddesses . In like manner the ancient Persians ...
... produce for a single moment a deception on the imagination . : Of all the poets who have introduced into their works ... produced , in a few centuries , the innumerable crowd of Gods and Goddesses . In like manner the ancient Persians ...
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... produced by the pencil or the chisel . But it is picturesque to the exclusion of all mystery . This is a fault on the right side , a fault insepar- able from the plan of Dante's poem , which , as we have already observed , rendered the ...
... produced by the pencil or the chisel . But it is picturesque to the exclusion of all mystery . This is a fault on the right side , a fault insepar- able from the plan of Dante's poem , which , as we have already observed , rendered the ...
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