Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Harper & Bros., 1860 - 324 sider |
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Side 10
... before painting in description , and before sculpture in imagery . Anterior to the discovery of letters , it was employed to communicate the lessons of wisdom , to celebrate the achievements of valour , 10 THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY .
... before painting in description , and before sculpture in imagery . Anterior to the discovery of letters , it was employed to communicate the lessons of wisdom , to celebrate the achievements of valour , 10 THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY .
Side 38
... employed poetry to dictate laws , with oracular authority , and to enforce morals with the sanction of a language like that of the gods . Plato was the most poetical of writers in prose , because , it has been said , he could not excel ...
... employed poetry to dictate laws , with oracular authority , and to enforce morals with the sanction of a language like that of the gods . Plato was the most poetical of writers in prose , because , it has been said , he could not excel ...
Side 40
... employ them as tests of whatever assumes to be poetry , by its structure , style , or colouring . That which is highest , purest , loveliest , and most excellent to the eye or to the mind , in reference to any object , either of the ...
... employ them as tests of whatever assumes to be poetry , by its structure , style , or colouring . That which is highest , purest , loveliest , and most excellent to the eye or to the mind , in reference to any object , either of the ...
Side 64
... employed by little lips , unconscious of its bitter meaning ; and so unheeded by those who are men already , and have forgotten that they ever had a golden dream of that iron age , a dream to which all the fictions of ro mance are cold ...
... employed by little lips , unconscious of its bitter meaning ; and so unheeded by those who are men already , and have forgotten that they ever had a golden dream of that iron age , a dream to which all the fictions of ro mance are cold ...
Side 69
... employed ; because poetical excitement is not required , and must be impertinent , when , instead of the passions being moved or the fancy delighted , the mind is to be instructed in abstract truths , informed of actual events ...
... employed ; because poetical excitement is not required , and must be impertinent , when , instead of the passions being moved or the fancy delighted , the mind is to be instructed in abstract truths , informed of actual events ...
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