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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... scenes are from nature , admiration of the pencil that drew them is the highest ingredient of our delight in beholding them , unless , by local , historical , or personal associations , the trees , the streams , the hills , or the ...
... scenes are from nature , admiration of the pencil that drew them is the highest ingredient of our delight in beholding them , unless , by local , historical , or personal associations , the trees , the streams , the hills , or the ...
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... scene . His " rich , historic ground , " calls up the actions and actors of the mightiest events ever exhibited on that theatre ; -the mountains of the Hun , the field of Aspern , the hills of Turkish story , are crowded with armies ...
... scene . His " rich , historic ground , " calls up the actions and actors of the mightiest events ever exhibited on that theatre ; -the mountains of the Hun , the field of Aspern , the hills of Turkish story , are crowded with armies ...
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... scenes and actions in which their characters are engaged . All these are bodied forth to the eye through the mind , as sculp- ture addresses the mind through the eye . In sculpture , nothing is less impressive than the allegorical ...
... scenes and actions in which their characters are engaged . All these are bodied forth to the eye through the mind , as sculp- ture addresses the mind through the eye . In sculpture , nothing is less impressive than the allegorical ...
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... scene , had passed in the presence of that uncon- scious marble which has given immortality to the pangs of death ; but not a soul among all the be- holders through eighteen centuries , — not one had ever before thought of " the rude ...
... scene , had passed in the presence of that uncon- scious marble which has given immortality to the pangs of death ; but not a soul among all the be- holders through eighteen centuries , — not one had ever before thought of " the rude ...
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... scenes of the universe tire the sight . For , if there be one characteristic of poetry which exalts it above every other species of literature , as well as distin- guishes it from the most refined of manual arts , it is this , ―that ...
... scenes of the universe tire the sight . For , if there be one characteristic of poetry which exalts it above every other species of literature , as well as distin- guishes it from the most refined of manual arts , it is this , ―that ...
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