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Pagina xiv
... pleasure ' : poetry that gives no pleasure is not for him . For this reason he prefers rhyme to blank verse ; for this reason he is always intolerant of a tedious style , of monotony , of a lack of variety in subject or in treatment ...
... pleasure ' : poetry that gives no pleasure is not for him . For this reason he prefers rhyme to blank verse ; for this reason he is always intolerant of a tedious style , of monotony , of a lack of variety in subject or in treatment ...
Pagina 32
... pleasure . The artifice of inversion , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , but by those ...
... pleasure . The artifice of inversion , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , but by those ...
Pagina 126
... Pleasure and terrour are indeed the genuine sources of poetry ; but poetical pleasure must be such as human imagination can at least conceive , and poetical terrour such as human strength and fortitude may combat . The good and evil of ...
... Pleasure and terrour are indeed the genuine sources of poetry ; but poetical pleasure must be such as human imagination can at least conceive , and poetical terrour such as human strength and fortitude may combat . The good and evil of ...
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