Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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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 ...
Page 12
... 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 enchantment . No sooner are they pronounced , than the past is present and ...
... 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 enchantment . No sooner are they pronounced , than the past is present and ...
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... less on what they directly repre- sent than on what they remotely suggest . However strange , however grotesque , may be the appearance which Dante undertakes to describe , he never shrinks from describing it . He gives us the shape ...
... less on what they directly repre- sent than on what they remotely suggest . However strange , however grotesque , may be the appearance which Dante undertakes to describe , he never shrinks from describing 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 colouring can produce no illusion , when it is employed to represent that ...
... 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 colouring can produce no illusion , when it is employed to represent that ...
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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 en- shrined 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 en- shrined her ...
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