Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Harper & Bros., 1860 - 324 sider |
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... highest order who either learned his art of one or taught it to another . It is true that the poet com- municates to the bosom of his reader the flame which burns in his own ; but the bosom thus enkindled cannot communicate the fire to ...
... highest order who either learned his art of one or taught it to another . It is true that the poet com- municates to the bosom of his reader the flame which burns in his own ; but the bosom thus enkindled cannot communicate the fire to ...
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... highest office of poetry , -it is poetry , as Echo in the golden my- thology of Greece remained a nymph , even after she had passed away into a sound . But the first music must have been vocal , and the first words sung to notes must ...
... highest office of poetry , -it is poetry , as Echo in the golden my- thology of Greece remained a nymph , even after she had passed away into a sound . But the first music must have been vocal , and the first words sung to notes must ...
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... highest pleasure which the art can communicate ; and in this respect portrait - painting ( however disparaged ) is the highest point of the art itself , being at once the most real , intellectual , and imaginative . A poem is a campaign ...
... highest pleasure which the art can communicate ; and in this respect portrait - painting ( however disparaged ) is the highest point of the art itself , being at once the most real , intellectual , and imaginative . A poem is a campaign ...
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... highest ingredient of our delight in beholding them , -unless by local , historical , or personal associations , the trees , the streams , the hills , or the buildings remind us of things greater and dearer than themselves . This , of ...
... highest ingredient of our delight in beholding them , -unless by local , historical , or personal associations , the trees , the streams , the hills , or the buildings remind us of things greater and dearer than themselves . This , of ...
Side 23
... highest attempts of the highest minds , in the highest of the imitative arts . It follows that mediocrity is less tolerable in sculpture than in painting , music , and even poetry itself . Nothing in it is truly excellent but that which ...
... highest attempts of the highest minds , in the highest of the imitative arts . It follows that mediocrity is less tolerable in sculpture than in painting , music , and even poetry itself . Nothing in it is truly excellent but that which ...
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