Critical and miscellaneous essays, Volumen1Carey, 1852 |
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... fact , it is the age that forms the man , not the man that forms the age . Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are ; but they only pay with interest what they have received . We extol Bacon , and ...
... fact , it is the age that forms the man , not the man that forms the age . Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are ; but they only pay with interest what they have received . We extol Bacon , and ...
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... fact is , that poetry requires not an examining , but a believing frame of mind . Those feel it most , and write it best , who forget that it is a work of art ; to whom its imita- tions , like the realities from which they are taken ...
... fact is , that poetry requires not an examining , but a believing frame of mind . Those feel it most , and write it best , who forget that it is a work of art ; to whom its imita- tions , like the realities from which they are taken ...
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... facts . How many hours the action of a play may be allowed to occupy - how many similes an epic poet may introduce into his first book , -whether a piece , which is acknowledged to have a be- ginning and end , may not be without a ...
... facts . How many hours the action of a play may be allowed to occupy - how many similes an epic poet may introduce into his first book , -whether a piece , which is acknowledged to have a be- ginning and end , may not be without a ...
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... fact , is almost constantly the case . The few great works of imagination which appear in a critical age are , almost without exception , the works of uneducated men . Thus , at a time when persons of quality translated French romances ...
... fact , is almost constantly the case . The few great works of imagination which appear in a critical age are , almost without exception , the works of uneducated men . Thus , at a time when persons of quality translated French romances ...
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... facts into remote conse- quences , that these incongruous topics are introduced into the description . Homer , it is true , perpetually uses epithets which are not peculiarly appropriate . Achilles is the swift- footed , when he is ...
... facts into remote conse- quences , that these incongruous topics are introduced into the description . Homer , it is true , perpetually uses epithets which are not peculiarly appropriate . Achilles is the swift- footed , when he is ...
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