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... necessary for their intel- ligence when submitted to cool perusal , than when uttered before indulgent hearers with the living voice . Sheffield , April 24 , 1833 . CONTENTS . LECTURE I. THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY 6 PREFACE .
... necessary for their intel- ligence when submitted to cool perusal , than when uttered before indulgent hearers with the living voice . Sheffield , April 24 , 1833 . CONTENTS . LECTURE I. THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY 6 PREFACE .
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... it approaches nearest to nature , and yet can present little besides models of her living forms , and those principally in repose . Plausible reasons are assigned for the latter spontaneous re- striction of 22 THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY.
... it approaches nearest to nature , and yet can present little besides models of her living forms , and those principally in repose . Plausible reasons are assigned for the latter spontaneous re- striction of 22 THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY.
Side 25
... living , breathing , moving creatures ; they stand , walk , run , fly , speak , love , fight , fall , labour , suffer , die , -in a word , they are men of like passions with ourselves , undergoing all the changes of actual existence ...
... living , breathing , moving creatures ; they stand , walk , run , fly , speak , love , fight , fall , labour , suffer , die , -in a word , they are men of like passions with ourselves , undergoing all the changes of actual existence ...
Side 33
... living , adopted from common report ; but , however incorrect they may be , the impression made on the public mind , on the presumption of their truth , is sufficient for the author's argument here . it is on the issue of their trials ...
... living , adopted from common report ; but , however incorrect they may be , the impression made on the public mind , on the presumption of their truth , is sufficient for the author's argument here . it is on the issue of their trials ...
Side 35
... living voice over the heads of audiences that could criticise every syllable , even when Philip was at the gates , —we must necessarily form very imperfect ideas from reading them in a dead language , addressed only to the eye , for the ...
... living voice over the heads of audiences that could criticise every syllable , even when Philip was at the gates , —we must necessarily form very imperfect ideas from reading them in a dead language , addressed only to the eye , for the ...
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