Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1877 |
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Pagina 6
... less is it thus with poetry . The progress of refinement rarely supplies these arts with better objects of imitation . It may indeed improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechani- cal operations of the musician , the ...
... less is it thus with poetry . The progress of refinement rarely supplies these arts with better objects of imitation . It may indeed improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechani- cal operations of the musician , the ...
Pagina 12
... less in its obvious meaning than in its occult power . There would seem , at first sight , to be no more in his words than in other words . But they are words of enchantment . No sooner are they pronounced , than the past is present and ...
... less in its obvious meaning than in its occult power . There would seem , at first sight , to be no more in his words than in other words . But they are words of enchantment . No sooner are they pronounced , than the past is present and ...
Pagina 18
... less on what they directly represent than on what they remotely suggest . However strange , however grotesque , may be the appearance which Dante undertakes to describe , he never shrinks from describing it . He gives us the shape , the ...
... less on what they directly represent than on what they remotely suggest . However strange , however grotesque , may be the appearance which Dante undertakes to describe , he never shrinks from describing it . He gives us the shape , the ...
Pagina 23
... less dangerous , was also to be avoided . The imaginations of men are in a great measure under the control of their opinions . The most exquisite art of poetical colour- ing can produce no illusion , when it is employed to represent ...
... less dangerous , was also to be avoided . The imaginations of men are in a great measure under the control of their opinions . The most exquisite art of poetical colour- ing can produce no illusion , when it is employed to represent ...
Pagina 25
... superstitions of Greece . All is rugged , barbaric , and colossal . The legends of Eschylus seem to harmonize less with the fragrant groves and graceful porticoes in which his country- men paid their vows to the God of Light and MILTON .
... superstitions of Greece . All is rugged , barbaric , and colossal . The legends of Eschylus seem to harmonize less with the fragrant groves and graceful porticoes in which his country- men paid their vows to the God of Light and MILTON .
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Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1900 |
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