Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Harper & Bros., 1860 - 324 sider |
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Side 19
... scenes are from nature , admiration of the pencil that drew them is the highest ingredient of our delight in beholding them , -unless by local , historical , or personal associations , the trees , the streams , the hills , or the ...
... scenes are from nature , admiration of the pencil that drew them is the highest ingredient of our delight in beholding them , -unless by local , historical , or personal associations , the trees , the streams , the hills , or the ...
Side 21
... scene . His " rich historic ground " calls up the actions and actors of the mightiest events ever exhibited on that theatre ; the mountains of the Hun , the field of Aspern , the hills of Turkish story , are crowded with armies ...
... scene . His " rich historic ground " calls up the actions and actors of the mightiest events ever exhibited on that theatre ; the mountains of the Hun , the field of Aspern , the hills of Turkish story , are crowded with armies ...
Side 26
... scenes and actions in which their characters are engaged . All these are bodied forth to the eye through the mind , as sculpture addresses the mind through the eye . In sculpture , nothing is less impressive than the allegorical ...
... scenes and actions in which their characters are engaged . All these are bodied forth to the eye through the mind , as sculpture addresses the mind through the eye . In sculpture , nothing is less impressive than the allegorical ...
Side 29
... scene , had passed in the presence of that unconscious marble which has given immortality to the pangs of death ; but not a soul among all the beholders through eighteen centuries , -not one had ever before thought of " the rude hut ...
... scene , had passed in the presence of that unconscious marble which has given immortality to the pangs of death ; but not a soul among all the beholders through eighteen centuries , -not one had ever before thought of " the rude hut ...
Side 41
... scenes of the universe tire the sight . For , if there be one characteristic of poetry which exalts it above every other species of literature , as well as distinguishes it from the most refined of manual arts , it is this , - that ...
... scenes of the universe tire the sight . For , if there be one characteristic of poetry which exalts it above every other species of literature , as well as distinguishes it from the most refined of manual arts , it is this , - that ...
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Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c: Delivered at the Royal ... James Montgomery Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1836 |
Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c: Delivered at the Royal ... James Montgomery Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1840 |
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