Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 pages |
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... effect of a corresponding change in the nature of their intellectual operations ; a change by which science gains , and poetry loses . Generalization is neces- sary to the advancement of knowledge , but particularly in the creations of ...
... effect of a corresponding change in the nature of their intellectual operations ; a change by which science gains , and poetry loses . Generalization is neces- sary to the advancement of knowledge , but particularly in the creations of ...
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... effect of reality . No man , what- ever his sensibility may be , is ever affected by Hamlet or Lear , as a little girl is affected by the story of poor Red Riding - hood . She knows that it is all false , that wolves . cannot speak ...
... effect of reality . No man , what- ever his sensibility may be , is ever affected by Hamlet or Lear , as a little girl is affected by the story of poor Red Riding - hood . She knows that it is all false , that wolves . cannot speak ...
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... effect is produced , not so much by what it expresses , as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas which it directly conveys , as by other ideas which are connected with them . He electrifies the mind through conductors . The ...
... effect is produced , not so much by what it expresses , as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas which it directly conveys , as by other ideas which are connected with them . He electrifies the mind through conductors . The ...
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... effect wholly independent of their in- trinsic value . One transports us back to a remote period of history . Another places us among the moral scenery and manners of a distant country . A third evokes all the dear classical ...
... effect wholly independent of their in- trinsic value . One transports us back to a remote period of history . Another places us among the moral scenery and manners of a distant country . A third evokes all the dear classical ...
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... effect an amalgamation , but never with complete success . The Greek drama , on the model of which the Samson was written , sprung from the ode . The dialogue was ingrafted on the chorus , and naturally par- took of its character . The ...
... effect an amalgamation , but never with complete success . The Greek drama , on the model of which the Samson was written , sprung from the ode . The dialogue was ingrafted on the chorus , and naturally par- took of its character . The ...
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