Critical and Historical EssaysLongmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1874 - 855 pagina's |
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... 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 4
... produce an illusion on the imagination , the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours ... produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of be- lief . The Greek Rhapsodists ...
... produce an illusion on the imagination , the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours ... produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of be- lief . The Greek Rhapsodists ...
Pagina 6
... produced , not so much by what it expresses , as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas which it di- rectly ... produce upon us an effect wholly independent of their intrinsic value . One transports us back to a remote period of ...
... produced , not so much by what it expresses , as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas which it di- rectly ... produce upon us an effect wholly independent of their intrinsic value . One transports us back to a remote period of ...
Pagina 7
... produced on the stage by the all praise . If , for instance , we examine voice of a prompter or the entrance of the ... produce an illusion . Euripides at- is the inspiration of the ode . It is the tempted to carry the reform further ...
... produced on the stage by the all praise . If , for instance , we examine voice of a prompter or the entrance of the ... produce an illusion . Euripides at- is the inspiration of the ode . It is the tempted to carry the reform further ...
Pagina 10
... produced , in a few centuries , the innumerable crowd of Gods and Goddesses . In like manner the ancient Persians thought it impious to exhibit the Creator under a human form . Yet even these transferred to the Sun the worship which ...
... produced , in a few centuries , the innumerable crowd of Gods and Goddesses . In like manner the ancient Persians thought it impious to exhibit the Creator under a human form . Yet even these transferred to the Sun the worship which ...
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Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 3 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1901 |
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