Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Harper & Bros., 1860 - 324 sider |
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... 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 , in which all the marches , sufferings , toils , and ...
... 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 , in which all the marches , sufferings , toils , and ...
Side 30
... respect dishonourable to the art ) has been a snare by which multitudes of its professors have been tempted to dishonour both it and themselves , by courtly servility to royal and noble patrons ; by yet viler degradation in ministering ...
... respect dishonourable to the art ) has been a snare by which multitudes of its professors have been tempted to dishonour both it and themselves , by courtly servility to royal and noble patrons ; by yet viler degradation in ministering ...
Side 32
... given again till another Sir Walter shall arise to witch the world with noble penmanship . * * The circumstances respecting Mr. West and Sir Walter Scott are I will never degrade poetry so low as to admit 32 THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY .
... given again till another Sir Walter shall arise to witch the world with noble penmanship . * * The circumstances respecting Mr. West and Sir Walter Scott are I will never degrade poetry so low as to admit 32 THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY .
Side 35
... respects , as the transmitter of knowledge concerning the past , is compelled to vail to poetry . Not that the records of actual events can be so properly conveyed in verse ( though bards in all nations were the first Thence to the ...
... respects , as the transmitter of knowledge concerning the past , is compelled to vail to poetry . Not that the records of actual events can be so properly conveyed in verse ( though bards in all nations were the first Thence to the ...
Side 39
... respects , splendid piles of error , on which eloquence , argument , all the power , pene- tration , and subtilty of minds of the highest order were expended in comparatively vain speculations ; resembling their temples , -prodigies of ...
... respects , splendid piles of error , on which eloquence , argument , all the power , pene- tration , and subtilty of minds of the highest order were expended in comparatively vain speculations ; resembling their temples , -prodigies of ...
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