Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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Pagina 5
... produced in a civilised age . We cannot understand why those who believe in that most orthodox article of literary faith , that the earliest poets are generally the best , should wonder at the rule as if it were the exception . Surely ...
... produced in a civilised age . We cannot understand why those who believe in that most orthodox article of literary faith , that the earliest poets are generally the best , should wonder at the rule as if it were the exception . Surely ...
Pagina 7
... produce an illusion on the ima- gination , the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours . Thus the greatest of poets has described it , in lines universally admired for the vigour and felicity of their ...
... produce an illusion on the ima- gination , the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours . Thus the greatest of poets has described it , in lines universally admired for the vigour and felicity of their ...
Pagina 8
... produces on them the effect of reality . No man , whatever his sensibility may be , is ever affected by Hamlet or Lear , as ... produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists ...
... produces on them the effect of reality . No man , whatever his sensibility may be , is ever affected by Hamlet or Lear , as ... produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists ...
Pagina 9
... produces an illusion on the eye of the mind , as a magic lantern produces an illusion on the eye of the body . And , as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room , poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age . As the light ...
... produces an illusion on the eye of the mind , as a magic lantern produces an illusion on the eye of the body . And , as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room , poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age . As the light ...
Pagina 11
... produced , not so much by what it expresses , as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas which it directly conveys , as by other ideas which are con- nected with them . He electrifies the mind through conductors . The most ...
... produced , not so much by what it expresses , as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas which it directly conveys , as by other ideas which are con- nected with them . He electrifies the mind through conductors . The most ...
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