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And as our ideas derived from visible objects are more distinct than those derived
from the objects of our other senses , the words expressive of these ideas
belonging to vision make up the principal part of poetic language ; that is , the
poet ...
And as our ideas derived from visible objects are more distinct than those derived
from the objects of our other senses , the words expressive of these ideas
belonging to vision make up the principal part of poetic language ; that is , the
poet ...
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They could embalm bodies , but hieroglyphics themselves have failed to enbalm
ideas . Yet there was mind , and mind of high order ; limited , indeed , in the
range of objects on which it was exercised , but expanding itself into immensity
upon ...
They could embalm bodies , but hieroglyphics themselves have failed to enbalm
ideas . Yet there was mind , and mind of high order ; limited , indeed , in the
range of objects on which it was exercised , but expanding itself into immensity
upon ...
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They could embalm bodies , but hieroglyphics themselves have failed to enbalm
ideas . Yet there was mind , and mind of high order ; limited , indeed , in the
range of objects on which it was exercised , but expanding itself into immensity
upon ...
They could embalm bodies , but hieroglyphics themselves have failed to enbalm
ideas . Yet there was mind , and mind of high order ; limited , indeed , in the
range of objects on which it was exercised , but expanding itself into immensity
upon ...
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To say nothing of the impiety , the absurdity of such an association of images and
ideas is so revolting , that the mind which could endure it must be either originally
insensible to all that is delicate , beautiful , and true in poetry , painting , and ...
To say nothing of the impiety , the absurdity of such an association of images and
ideas is so revolting , that the mind which could endure it must be either originally
insensible to all that is delicate , beautiful , and true in poetry , painting , and ...
Página 312
... the ideas which they could clearly express must be few in proportion : and
though their combinations might be as infinitely diversified as the combinations of
alphabetical signs , yet , as each could have but one fixed meaning , which it
would ...
... the ideas which they could clearly express must be few in proportion : and
though their combinations might be as infinitely diversified as the combinations of
alphabetical signs , yet , as each could have but one fixed meaning , which it
would ...
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| Título | Lectures on Poetry and General Literature: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831 |
| Autor | James Montgomery |
| Editora | Longman, Rees, Orme, Browne, Green, & Longman, 1833 |
| Original de | Oxford University |
| Digitalizado | 3 ago. 2007 |
| Num. págs. | 394 páginas |
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