Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... effect of a corresponding change in the nature of their intellectual operations , of a change by which science gains and poetry loses . Generalisation is necessary to the advancement of knowledge ; but particularity is indispensable to ...
... effect of a corresponding change in the nature of their intellectual operations , of a change by which science gains and poetry loses . Generalisation is necessary to the advancement of knowledge ; but particularity is indispensable to ...
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... effect of reality . No man , whatever 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 , that ...
... effect of reality . No man , whatever 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 , that ...
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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 con- nected 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 con- nected with them . He electrifies the mind through conductors . The ...
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... effect wholly independent of their intrinsic value . One transports us back to a remote period of history . Another places us among the novel scenes and manners of a distant region . A third evokes all the dear classical recollections ...
... effect wholly independent of their intrinsic value . One transports us back to a remote period of history . Another places us among the novel scenes and manners of a distant region . A third evokes all the dear classical recollections ...
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... effect an amalgamation , but never with complete success . The Greek Drama , on the model of which the Samson was written , sprang from the Ode . The dialogue was ingrafted on the chorus , and naturally partook of its character . The ...
... effect an amalgamation , but never with complete success . The Greek Drama , on the model of which the Samson was written , sprang from the Ode . The dialogue was ingrafted on the chorus , and naturally partook of its character . The ...
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