Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Harper & Bros., 1860 - 324 sider |
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... heart , and expands the soul of the hearer , -playing upon his passions as upon a lyre , and making him to feel as though he were holding converse with a spirit ; this is the art of Nature herself , invariably and perpetually pleasing ...
... heart , and expands the soul of the hearer , -playing upon his passions as upon a lyre , and making him to feel as though he were holding converse with a spirit ; this is the art of Nature herself , invariably and perpetually pleasing ...
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... heart , and leaving little permanent impression upon the mind . When , in- deed , music awakens national , military , local , or tender recollections of the distant or the dead , the loved or the lost , it then performs the highest ...
... heart , and leaving little permanent impression upon the mind . When , in- deed , music awakens national , military , local , or tender recollections of the distant or the dead , the loved or the lost , it then performs the highest ...
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... heart - strings with tender emotion , or stir thought from its depths into ardent and earnest exercise . I appeal to all who hear me , whether among a hundred of the monu ments in our cathedrals , and the statues in our THE PRE ...
... heart - strings with tender emotion , or stir thought from its depths into ardent and earnest exercise . I appeal to all who hear me , whether among a hundred of the monu ments in our cathedrals , and the statues in our THE PRE ...
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... heart , which neither of them could intimate by any visible sign . But we must return to the swoon of the dying man : — " The arena swims around him , he is gone , Ere ceased the inhuman shout that hail'd the wretch who won . " He heard ...
... heart , which neither of them could intimate by any visible sign . But we must return to the swoon of the dying man : — " The arena swims around him , he is gone , Ere ceased the inhuman shout that hail'd the wretch who won . " He heard ...
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... heart - sickness from hope deferred and hope disappointed , which he has so admirably expressed in a couplet of sterling English , excelling even the celebrated original in the third satire of Juvenal : - ' Haud facile emergunt , quorum ...
... heart - sickness from hope deferred and hope disappointed , which he has so admirably expressed in a couplet of sterling English , excelling even the celebrated original in the third satire of Juvenal : - ' Haud facile emergunt , quorum ...
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