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By poetry we mean , the art of employ- ing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination : the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours . Thus the greatest of poets has described it ...
By poetry we mean , the art of employ- ing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination : the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours . Thus the greatest of poets has described it ...
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We have seen , in our own time , great talents , intense labour , and long meditation , employed in this struggle against the spirit of the age , and employed , we will not say , absolutely in vain , but with dubious success and feeble ...
We have seen , in our own time , great talents , intense labour , and long meditation , employed in this struggle against the spirit of the age , and employed , we will not say , absolutely in vain , but with dubious success and feeble ...
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The most exquisite art of a poetical colouring can produce no illusion when it is employed to represent that which is at once perceived to be incongruous and absurd . Milton wrote in an age of philosophers and theologians .
The most exquisite art of a poetical colouring can produce no illusion when it is employed to represent that which is at once perceived to be incongruous and absurd . Milton wrote in an age of philosophers and theologians .
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We feel a national pride in comparing them with the instruments which the despots of other countries are compelled to employ , with the mutes who throng their antechambers , and the Janissaries who mouht guard at their gates .
We feel a national pride in comparing them with the instruments which the despots of other countries are compelled to employ , with the mutes who throng their antechambers , and the Janissaries who mouht guard at their gates .
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One hypothesis is , that Machiavelli intended to practise on the young Lorenzo de Medici a fraud , similar to that which Sunderland is said to have employed against our James the Second , —that he urged his pupil to violent and ...
One hypothesis is , that Machiavelli intended to practise on the young Lorenzo de Medici a fraud , similar to that which Sunderland is said to have employed against our James the Second , —that he urged his pupil to violent and ...
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