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... fall short of the point of truth always aimed at , they nevertheless serve as guides and monitors to the understanding and imagination of the reader . This seems especially the case with the work now submitted to the public .
... fall short of the point of truth always aimed at , they nevertheless serve as guides and monitors to the understanding and imagination of the reader . This seems especially the case with the work now submitted to the public .
Page xv
He has not those rude ideas of his art which many moderns seem to have , as if the poet , like the clown in the proverb , must strike twice on the same place . An ancient rhetorician delivered a caution against dwelling too long on the ...
He has not those rude ideas of his art which many moderns seem to have , as if the poet , like the clown in the proverb , must strike twice on the same place . An ancient rhetorician delivered a caution against dwelling too long on the ...
Page xx
... which seem enamored of their own sweetness“ Daffodils That come before the swallow dares , and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim , But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes , Or Cytherea's breath .
... which seem enamored of their own sweetness“ Daffodils That come before the swallow dares , and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim , But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes , Or Cytherea's breath .
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To a mere literal and formal apprehension , the inimitably characteristic epithet “ violets dim , " must seem to imply a defect , rather than a beauty ; and to any one , not feeling the full force of that epithet , which suggests an ...
To a mere literal and formal apprehension , the inimitably characteristic epithet “ violets dim , " must seem to imply a defect , rather than a beauty ; and to any one , not feeling the full force of that epithet , which suggests an ...
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His tragedy seems to be skill , his comedy to be instinct . ” Yet after saying that “ his tragedy was skill , ” he affirms in the next page , “ His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak , for his power was the power of ...
His tragedy seems to be skill , his comedy to be instinct . ” Yet after saying that “ his tragedy was skill , ” he affirms in the next page , “ His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak , for his power was the power of ...
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