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... describe the objects of a sixth sense ; nor do we think he would have any very profound feeling of the beauty of the passages here referred to . A stately common - place , such as Congreve's description of a ruin in the Mourning Bride ...
... describe the objects of a sixth sense ; nor do we think he would have any very profound feeling of the beauty of the passages here referred to . A stately common - place , such as Congreve's description of a ruin in the Mourning Bride ...
Page 8
... describes from the feelings of their supposed inhabitants . He at the same time preserves the utmost propriety of action and passion , and gives all their local accompani- ments . If he was equal to the greatest things , he was not ...
... describes from the feelings of their supposed inhabitants . He at the same time preserves the utmost propriety of action and passion , and gives all their local accompani- ments . If he was equal to the greatest things , he was not ...
Page 64
... used to this tragedy that we hardly know how to criticise it any more than we should know how to describe our own faces . But we must make such observations as we can . It is the one of 64 CHARACTERS OF SHAKESPEAR'S PLAYS.
... used to this tragedy that we hardly know how to criticise it any more than we should know how to describe our own faces . But we must make such observations as we can . It is the one of 64 CHARACTERS OF SHAKESPEAR'S PLAYS.
Page 93
... describing the loveliness of Juliet , who is supposed to be dead , have been compared to those in which it is said of Cleopatra after her death , that she looked " as she would take another Antony in her strong toil of grace ; grace ...
... describing the loveliness of Juliet , who is supposed to be dead , have been compared to those in which it is said of Cleopatra after her death , that she looked " as she would take another Antony in her strong toil of grace ; grace ...
Page 110
... describing the strongest passions : for the power of the imagination , in works of invention , must be in proportion to the force of the natural impressions , which are the sub- ject of them . 4. That the circumstance which balances the ...
... describing the strongest passions : for the power of the imagination , in works of invention , must be in proportion to the force of the natural impressions , which are the sub- ject of them . 4. That the circumstance which balances the ...
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