Lectures on Poetry and General Literature: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Longman, Rees, Orme, Browne, Green, & Longman, 1833 - 394 páginas |
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... circumstances which must have concurred to bring the story , if the subject be narrative , the scenery if it be landscape , or the person if it be portrait , to that special crisis , light , or aspect , which has enabled the inventor to ...
... circumstances which must have concurred to bring the story , if the subject be narrative , the scenery if it be landscape , or the person if it be portrait , to that special crisis , light , or aspect , which has enabled the inventor to ...
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... circumstances of the siege of Vienna by the Turks , about the middle of the seven- teenth century , and its deliverance by Sobiesky , king of Poland , will at once realise the Ottoman battle- array under the beleaguered walls ; the ...
... circumstances of the siege of Vienna by the Turks , about the middle of the seven- teenth century , and its deliverance by Sobiesky , king of Poland , will at once realise the Ottoman battle- array under the beleaguered walls ; the ...
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... circumstance ( in no respect dishonourable to the art ) has been a snare by which multitudes of its professors have been tempted to dishonour both it and themselves , by courtly servility to royal and noble patrons ; - by yet viler ...
... circumstance ( in no respect dishonourable to the art ) has been a snare by which multitudes of its professors have been tempted to dishonour both it and themselves , by courtly servility to royal and noble patrons ; - by yet viler ...
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... circumstances respecting Mr. West and Sir Walter Scott are adopted from common report ; but , however incorrect they may be , the impression made on the public mind , on the presumption of their truth , is sufficient for the author's ...
... circumstances respecting Mr. West and Sir Walter Scott are adopted from common report ; but , however incorrect they may be , the impression made on the public mind , on the presumption of their truth , is sufficient for the author's ...
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... circumstances , in cases where what really did happen is no longer known . This is exemplified by the narrative poems of the Siege of Troy , and the Voyages of Ulysses and Æneas , - events of which no other history exists ; and though ...
... circumstances , in cases where what really did happen is no longer known . This is exemplified by the narrative poems of the Siege of Troy , and the Voyages of Ulysses and Æneas , - events of which no other history exists ; and though ...
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