Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Harper & Bros., 1860 - 324 sidor |
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... idea is lost . Thus nothing can be less adorned than the opening of " Paradise Lost ; " the cadence of the verse alone redeems the whole from being plain prose in the first six lines ; but thenceforward it rises through every clause in ...
... idea is lost . Thus nothing can be less adorned than the opening of " Paradise Lost ; " the cadence of the verse alone redeems the whole from being plain prose in the first six lines ; but thenceforward it rises through every clause in ...
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... ideas so felici- tously as to imply the various antecedent , accompa nying , and conventional incidents which are neces- sary to be understood before the beholder can per- fectly gather from the forms and colours before his eye the fine ...
... ideas so felici- tously as to imply the various antecedent , accompa nying , and conventional incidents which are neces- sary to be understood before the beholder can per- fectly gather from the forms and colours before his eye the fine ...
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... ideas expressed in these wonderful lines ? -his " limbs of giant mould , ” — his stalking , howling , cast- ing himself prone , and falling asleep ; -with the ac- companiments of the " midnight storm , " " the ridgy steep , " " the ...
... ideas expressed in these wonderful lines ? -his " limbs of giant mould , ” — his stalking , howling , cast- ing himself prone , and falling asleep ; -with the ac- companiments of the " midnight storm , " " the ridgy steep , " " the ...
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... ideas connected with the combat and the fall , the spectators and the scene , had passed in the presence of that unconscious marble which has given immortality to the pangs of death ; but not a soul among all the beholders through ...
... ideas connected with the combat and the fall , the spectators and the scene , had passed in the presence of that unconscious marble which has given immortality to the pangs of death ; but not a soul among all the beholders through ...
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... ideas from reading them in a dead language , addressed only to the eye , for the sounds , whatever be our pronunciation , are little more than imaginary ; Cicero and Demcs- thenes have exercised no such power over posterity as Homer and ...
... ideas from reading them in a dead language , addressed only to the eye , for the sounds , whatever be our pronunciation , are little more than imaginary ; Cicero and Demcs- thenes have exercised no such power over posterity as Homer and ...
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