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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... exercise in each case is es- sentially as different as invention and imitation are . A skilful violinist may lead the oratorio of the Mes- siah as Handel himself could not have led it : Kemble could not have written the part of Hamlet ...
... exercise in each case is es- sentially as different as invention and imitation are . A skilful violinist may lead the oratorio of the Mes- siah as Handel himself could not have led it : Kemble could not have written the part of Hamlet ...
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... exercise . I appeal to all who hear me , whether , among a hundred of the monuments in our cathedrals , and the statues in our public places , they ever met with more than one 18 NO . I. THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY .
... exercise . I appeal to all who hear me , whether , among a hundred of the monuments in our cathedrals , and the statues in our public places , they ever met with more than one 18 NO . I. THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY .
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... exercises over the purest and most universal of human sympathies , — sympathies which can no more be bribed by artifice than they can help yielding to the impulse of nature ) —such , I say , is the simple memorial , by our own Chantrey ...
... exercises over the purest and most universal of human sympathies , — sympathies which can no more be bribed by artifice than they can help yielding to the impulse of nature ) —such , I say , is the simple memorial , by our own Chantrey ...
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... exercising himself : - Collins presents natural dangers from lightning , tempest , and earthquake , —Chaucer , the perils of war , battle , human violence , or ambush ; the last of which is finely conceived in the first couplet ...
... exercising himself : - Collins presents natural dangers from lightning , tempest , and earthquake , —Chaucer , the perils of war , battle , human violence , or ambush ; the last of which is finely conceived in the first couplet ...
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... exercise of its ordi- nary functions ; life itself is enjoyment . Yet in the heart of man there is something which disqualifies him from the full fruition of the blessings thus abundantly dealt around him ; - something which has ...
... exercise of its ordi- nary functions ; life itself is enjoyment . Yet in the heart of man there is something which disqualifies him from the full fruition of the blessings thus abundantly dealt around him ; - something which has ...
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