Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... less is it thus with poetry . The progress of refinement rarely supplies these arts with better objects of imitation . It may indeed improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician , the sculptor ...
... less is it thus with poetry . The progress of refinement rarely supplies these arts with better objects of imitation . It may indeed improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician , the sculptor ...
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... less in its obvious meaning than in its occult power . There would seem , at first sight , to be no more in his words than in other words . But they are words of en- chantment . No sooner are they pronounced , than the past is present ...
... less in its obvious meaning than in its occult power . There would seem , at first sight , to be no more in his words than in other words . But they are words of en- chantment . No sooner are they pronounced , than the past is present ...
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... less on what they directly represent than on what they remotely suggest . However strange , how- ever grotesque , may be the appearance which Dante undertakes to describe , he never shrinks from de- scribing it . He gives us the shape ...
... less on what they directly represent than on what they remotely suggest . However strange , how- ever grotesque , may be the appearance which Dante undertakes to describe , he never shrinks from de- scribing it . He gives us the shape ...
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... less dangerous , was also to be avoided . The imaginations of men are in a great measure under the control of their opinions . The most exquisite art of poetical colour- ing can produce no illusion , when it is employed to represent ...
... less dangerous , was also to be avoided . The imaginations of men are in a great measure under the control of their opinions . The most exquisite art of poetical colour- ing can produce no illusion , when it is employed to represent ...
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... less with the fragrant groves and graceful porticoes in which his countrymen paid their vows to the God of Light and Goddess of Desire , than with those huge and grotesque labyrinths of eternal granite in which Egypt enshrined her ...
... less with the fragrant groves and graceful porticoes in which his countrymen paid their vows to the God of Light and Goddess of Desire , than with those huge and grotesque labyrinths of eternal granite in which Egypt enshrined her ...
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