Lectures on Poetry and General Literature: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Longman, 1833 - 394 páginas |
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... taste ; yet in their respective countries their great poems have not since been equalled , nor is it probable that they will here- after be surpassed by any of their successors . To the peculiar good fortune which , in their re ...
... taste ; yet in their respective countries their great poems have not since been equalled , nor is it probable that they will here- after be surpassed by any of their successors . To the peculiar good fortune which , in their re ...
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... taste for elegant and magnificent books , - though the latter factitious taste is nearly obsolete , and volumes of compendious literature are now the rage , —yet must authors be for ever excluded from the hope of reaping equal pecuniary ...
... taste for elegant and magnificent books , - though the latter factitious taste is nearly obsolete , and volumes of compendious literature are now the rage , —yet must authors be for ever excluded from the hope of reaping equal pecuniary ...
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... taste or not , it will hardly be disputed , that Xenophon and Thucydides have failed to command the attention , which ( not with- out a cause lying deep in our very nature ) has been won by Anacreon and Horace . But even on its own ...
... taste or not , it will hardly be disputed , that Xenophon and Thucydides have failed to command the attention , which ( not with- out a cause lying deep in our very nature ) has been won by Anacreon and Horace . But even on its own ...
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... taste , elegance , sublimity , —all that could show the immortality of man even in his mortal works , but dedicated to false gods , to idols , -the wisest among them not knowing that an idol , whether ideal or material , the idol of the ...
... taste , elegance , sublimity , —all that could show the immortality of man even in his mortal works , but dedicated to false gods , to idols , -the wisest among them not knowing that an idol , whether ideal or material , the idol of the ...
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... taste can conceive in the silence of thought , while he looks upon the page that records them . Do not the harmonies of Shakspeare himself ring more melodiously in remembrance , than they were ever made to sound in reality from the lips ...
... taste can conceive in the silence of thought , while he looks upon the page that records them . Do not the harmonies of Shakspeare himself ring more melodiously in remembrance , than they were ever made to sound in reality from the lips ...
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Lectures on Poetry and General Literature: Delivered at the Royal ... James Montgomery Visualização completa - 1833 |
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