Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... objects of imitation . It may indeed improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician , the sculptor , and the painter . But language , the machine of the poet , is best fitted for his purpose in ...
... objects of imitation . It may indeed improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician , the sculptor , and the painter . But language , the machine of the poet , is best fitted for his purpose in ...
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... objects from which they are drawn ; not for the sake of any ornament which they may impart to the poem ; but simply in order to make the meaning of the writer as clear to the reader as it is to himself . The ruins of the precipice which ...
... objects from which they are drawn ; not for the sake of any ornament which they may impart to the poem ; but simply in order to make the meaning of the writer as clear to the reader as it is to himself . The ruins of the precipice which ...
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... objects . They are the materials which he is to dispose in such a manner as to present a picture to the mental eye . And ... object of adoration . Perhaps none of the secondary causes which Gibbon has assigned for the rapidity with which ...
... objects . They are the materials which he is to dispose in such a manner as to present a picture to the mental eye . And ... object of adoration . Perhaps none of the secondary causes which Gibbon has assigned for the rapidity with which ...
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... object to throw over their imaginations . This is the real ex- planation of the indistinctness and inconsistency with which he has often been reproached . Dr. Johnson acknowledges that it was absolutely necessary that the spirits should ...
... object to throw over their imaginations . This is the real ex- planation of the indistinctness and inconsistency with which he has often been reproached . Dr. Johnson acknowledges that it was absolutely necessary that the spirits should ...
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... objects , or loved better to luxuriate amidst sunbeams and flowers , the songs of nightingales , the juice of summer fruits , and the coolness of shady fountains . His con- ception of love unites all the voluptuousness of the Oriental ...
... objects , or loved better to luxuriate amidst sunbeams and flowers , the songs of nightingales , the juice of summer fruits , and the coolness of shady fountains . His con- ception of love unites all the voluptuousness of the Oriental ...
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