Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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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 THE BUSINESS OF THE POET 9 knowledge ; but ...
... 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 THE BUSINESS OF THE POET 9 knowledge ; but ...
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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 which poetry produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The ... effects its purpose most completely in a dark age . As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions , as the ...
... effect which poetry produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The ... effects its purpose most completely in a dark age . As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions , as the ...
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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 is destroyed . The spell loses its power : and he who should then hope to conjure with it would find himself as much mis- taken as Cassim in the Arabian tale , when he stood crying , Open Wheat , ' Open Barley , ' to the door ...
... effect is destroyed . The spell loses its power : and he who should then hope to conjure with it would find himself as much mis- taken as Cassim in the Arabian tale , when he stood crying , Open Wheat , ' Open Barley , ' to the door ...
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