Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1857 |
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... objects of imitation . It may , indeed , improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician , the sculptor , and the painter . But language , the machine of the poet , is best fitted for his purpose ...
... objects of imitation . It may , indeed , improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician , the sculptor , and the painter . But language , the machine of the poet , is best fitted for his purpose ...
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... objects from which they are drawn , not for the sake of any ornament which they may impart to the poem , but simply in order to make the meaning of the writer as clear to the reader as it is to himself . The ruins of the precipice which ...
... objects from which they are drawn , not for the sake of any ornament which they may impart to the poem , but simply in order to make the meaning of the writer as clear to the reader as it is to himself . The ruins of the precipice which ...
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... objects . They are the materials which he is to dispose in such a manner as to present a picture to the mental eye . And , if they are not so disposed , they are no more entitled to be called poetry , than a bale of canvass and a box of ...
... objects . They are the materials which he is to dispose in such a manner as to present a picture to the mental eye . And , if they are not so disposed , they are no more entitled to be called poetry , than a bale of canvass and a box of ...
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... object of adora- tion . Perhaps none of the secondary causes which Gibbon has assigned for the rapidity with which Christianity spread over the world , while Judaism scarcely ever acquired a proselyte , operated more powerfully than ...
... object of adora- tion . Perhaps none of the secondary causes which Gibbon has assigned for the rapidity with which Christianity spread over the world , while Judaism scarcely ever acquired a proselyte , operated more powerfully than ...
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... object to throw over their imaginations . This is the real explanation of the in- distinctness and inconsistency with which he has often been reproached . Dr. Johnson acknowledges , that it was absolutely necessary for him to clothe his ...
... object to throw over their imaginations . This is the real explanation of the in- distinctness and inconsistency with which he has often been reproached . Dr. Johnson acknowledges , that it was absolutely necessary for him to clothe his ...
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