Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... produced in a civilised age . We cannot understand why those who believe in that most orthodox article of literary faith , that the earliest poets are generally the best , should wonder at the rule as if it were the exception . Surely ...
... produced in a civilised age . We cannot understand why those who believe in that most orthodox article of literary faith , that the earliest poets are generally the best , should wonder at the rule as if it were the exception . Surely ...
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... produces on them the effect of reality . No man , whatever his sensibility may be , is ever affected by Hamlet or Lear , as ... produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists ...
... produces on them the effect of reality . No man , whatever his sensibility may be , is ever affected by Hamlet or Lear , as ... produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists ...
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... produces an illusion on the eye of the mind , as a magic lantern produces an illusion on the eye of the body . And , as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room , poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age . As the light ...
... produces an illusion on the eye of the mind , as a magic lantern produces an illusion on the eye of the body . And , as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room , poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age . As the light ...
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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 conveys , as by other ideas which are con- nected with them . He electrifies the mind through conductors . The most ...
... 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 most ...
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... produce upon us an 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 ... produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter or MILTON . 13.
... produce upon us an 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 ... produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter or MILTON . 13.
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