A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient SourcesAnna Lydia Ward |
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... Poetry makes a principal amusement among unpolished nations ; but in a country verging to the extremes of refine- ment , painting and music come in for a share . 128 Goldsmith : The Traveller . Dedication . The moment a man finds a ...
... Poetry makes a principal amusement among unpolished nations ; but in a country verging to the extremes of refine- ment , painting and music come in for a share . 128 Goldsmith : The Traveller . Dedication . The moment a man finds a ...
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... Poetry . ( Godwin , Translator . ) Bk . xi . The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws , commensurate to every pur- pose within its scope , but concealed from the eye of the spec- tator ; and ...
... Poetry . ( Godwin , Translator . ) Bk . xi . The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws , commensurate to every pur- pose within its scope , but concealed from the eye of the spec- tator ; and ...
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... poet , no sculptor , succeed in snatching the inmost secret of art , and so making his name immortal ? 216 Henry James : Lectures and Miscellanies . Lect . iii . The Principle of Universality in Art . Piety in art , poetry in art ...
... poet , no sculptor , succeed in snatching the inmost secret of art , and so making his name immortal ? 216 Henry James : Lectures and Miscellanies . Lect . iii . The Principle of Universality in Art . Piety in art , poetry in art ...
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... Poetry and Imagination . Creation . An affected modesty is very often the greatest vanity , and authors are ... Poet's Year . One writer , for instance , excels at a plan 30 AUTHORS .
... Poetry and Imagination . Creation . An affected modesty is very often the greatest vanity , and authors are ... Poet's Year . One writer , for instance , excels at a plan 30 AUTHORS .
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... Poetry . The Value and Uses of Poetry . COMPENSATION . There is a remedy for every wrong , and a satisfaction for every soul . 813 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims . Immortality . Everything a man parts with is the cost of something ...
... Poetry . The Value and Uses of Poetry . COMPENSATION . There is a remedy for every wrong , and a satisfaction for every soul . 813 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims . Immortality . Everything a man parts with is the cost of something ...
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