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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... light , or aspect , which has enabled the inventor to exhibit the sum of his ideas so felicitously , as to imply the various ante- cedent , accompanying , and conventional incidents , which are necessary to be understood before the be ...
... light , or aspect , which has enabled the inventor to exhibit the sum of his ideas so felicitously , as to imply the various ante- cedent , accompanying , and conventional incidents , which are necessary to be understood before the be ...
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... lights and sha- dows which transform them from pretended myste- ries , and pompous truisms , into clear , permanent , and influential realities . ― * The first of these assertions will probably be ad- mitted , that eloquence has ...
... lights and sha- dows which transform them from pretended myste- ries , and pompous truisms , into clear , permanent , and influential realities . ― * The first of these assertions will probably be ad- mitted , that eloquence has ...
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... light from heaven . " In regard to philosophy and jurisprudence , it may be remarked , that Pythagoras , Solon , Lycurgus , and Socrates himself , occasionally employed poetry to dictate laws , with oracular authority , and to enforce ...
... light from heaven . " In regard to philosophy and jurisprudence , it may be remarked , that Pythagoras , Solon , Lycurgus , and Socrates himself , occasionally employed poetry to dictate laws , with oracular authority , and to enforce ...
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... whole in such connection , due distance , and convenient light , as shall at once satisfy the understanding with what is revealed , excite the imagination towards that which is hidden , and prompt the curiosity to follow out.
... whole in such connection , due distance , and convenient light , as shall at once satisfy the understanding with what is revealed , excite the imagination towards that which is hidden , and prompt the curiosity to follow out.
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... light , relapses from infirmity , I might say , in self - defence , — into momentary blindness , but soon accommodating itself to the splendour around , all becomes natural , agreeable , and right ; while new discoveries of what was ...
... light , relapses from infirmity , I might say , in self - defence , — into momentary blindness , but soon accommodating itself to the splendour around , all becomes natural , agreeable , and right ; while new discoveries of what was ...
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