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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... employed to communicate the lessons of wisdom , to celebrate the achievements of valour , and to promulgate the sanctions of law . Music was invented to accompany , and painting and sculpture to illustrate it . I have ventured to say ...
... employed to communicate the lessons of wisdom , to celebrate the achievements of valour , and to promulgate the sanctions of law . Music was invented to accompany , and painting and sculpture to illustrate it . I have ventured to say ...
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... employed poetry to dictate laws , with oracular authority , and to enforce morals with the sanction of a language like that of the gods . Plato was the most poetical of writers in prose , because , it has been said , he could not excel ...
... employed poetry to dictate laws , with oracular authority , and to enforce morals with the sanction of a language like that of the gods . Plato was the most poetical of writers in prose , because , it has been said , he could not excel ...
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... employ them as tests of whatever assumes to be poetry , by its structure , style , or colouring . That which is highest , purest , loveliest , and most excellent to the eye or to the mind , in reference to any object , either of the ...
... employ them as tests of whatever assumes to be poetry , by its structure , style , or colouring . That which is highest , purest , loveliest , and most excellent to the eye or to the mind , in reference to any object , either of the ...
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... employed by little lips , unconscious of its bitter meaning ; and so unheeded by those who are men already , and have forgotten that they ever had a golden dream of that iron age , a dream , to which all the fictions of romance are cold ...
... employed by little lips , unconscious of its bitter meaning ; and so unheeded by those who are men already , and have forgotten that they ever had a golden dream of that iron age , a dream , to which all the fictions of romance are cold ...
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... employed ; because poetical excitement is not required , and must be impertinent , when , in- stead of the passions being moved or the fancy de- lighted , the mind is to be instructed in abstract truths , informed of actual events ...
... employed ; because poetical excitement is not required , and must be impertinent , when , in- stead of the passions being moved or the fancy de- lighted , the mind is to be instructed in abstract truths , informed of actual events ...
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