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... effect on the mind of the reader , preferably an effect of melancholy which Poe regarded as " the most legitimate of all the poetic tones . " To him the lyric , not over a hundred lines long , was the only true poem . He emphasized ...
... effect on the mind of the reader , preferably an effect of melancholy which Poe regarded as " the most legitimate of all the poetic tones . " To him the lyric , not over a hundred lines long , was the only true poem . He emphasized ...
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... effect . Keeping originality always in view - for he is false to himself who ven- tures to dispense with so obvious and so easily attainable a source of interest — I say to myself , in the first place , " Of the innu- merable effects ...
... effect . Keeping originality always in view - for he is false to himself who ven- tures to dispense with so obvious and so easily attainable a source of interest — I say to myself , in the first place , " Of the innu- merable effects ...
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... effect which it is capable of inducing ; for it is clear that the brevity must be in direct ratio of the 20 intensity of the intended effect : -this , with one proviso - that a certain degree of duration is absolutely requisite for the ...
... effect which it is capable of inducing ; for it is clear that the brevity must be in direct ratio of the 20 intensity of the intended effect : -this , with one proviso - that a certain degree of duration is absolutely requisite for the ...
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JONATHAN EDWARDS 17031758 | 16 |
Sarah Pierrepont | 24 |
JOHN WOOLMAN 17201772 | 31 |
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