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... thing that could atone for the deficiency would be some signal triumph of Melody . In As regards Tender Feeling , under all its various aspects , the course is clear . In it we are provided with one unmistakable division of the subject ...
... thing that could atone for the deficiency would be some signal triumph of Melody . In As regards Tender Feeling , under all its various aspects , the course is clear . In it we are provided with one unmistakable division of the subject ...
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... thing in literary criticism . It is occasionally practised by all rhetorical teachers s ; being found in Aristotle and in Longinus . Ben Jonson , in his celebrated eulogy of Shakespeare , wishes he had " blotted a thousand " lines . How ...
... thing in literary criticism . It is occasionally practised by all rhetorical teachers s ; being found in Aristotle and in Longinus . Ben Jonson , in his celebrated eulogy of Shakespeare , wishes he had " blotted a thousand " lines . How ...
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... things , a sweeter tone of sentiment or a finer flush in the colours of language , than in this Rubens of English poetry . His fancy teems exuberantly in minuteness of circumstance , like a fertile soil sending bloom and verdure through ...
... things , a sweeter tone of sentiment or a finer flush in the colours of language , than in this Rubens of English poetry . His fancy teems exuberantly in minuteness of circumstance , like a fertile soil sending bloom and verdure through ...
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... things an artist ; and as such he has formed for himself a composite and richly- wrought style , into the elaborate texture of which many elements , fetched from many lands and from many things , have entered . His selective mind has ...
... things an artist ; and as such he has formed for himself a composite and richly- wrought style , into the elaborate texture of which many elements , fetched from many lands and from many things , have entered . His selective mind has ...
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... things agreeable to our sense of sight . These can be pictured by the force of language , and such pictures are admissible into poetry . The splendours of coloured decoration in dwellings ; the artificial glare of fire - works ; the ...
... things agreeable to our sense of sight . These can be pictured by the force of language , and such pictures are admissible into poetry . The splendours of coloured decoration in dwellings ; the artificial glare of fire - works ; the ...
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agreeable Anacreon artistic beauty Beneficent Strength character charm circumstances combination comparison connexion contrast delight delineation depicted diction divine embodiment employed energy epithets erotic Eurydice example exemplified expression eyes figure force genius give grandeur harmony heaven highest Homer human hyperbolical ideal Iliad illustrated impression intellectual intensity interest INTERESTING AND UNINTERESTING Julius Cæsar kind language lines literary lofty lover Maleficent Strength Malevolence malignant mankind Matthew Arnold Menelaus ment Milton mind modes moral mountain nature ness Neutral Strength night objects ocean Ode to Duty pain Paradise Lost parental feeling passage passion Pathos Patroclus personification physical picture pleasure plot poem poet poet's poetic poetic diction poetry pure redeeming reference regard Sappho scene sexes Shakespeare stanza stars sublime suggestion superiority sweet sympathy Tamburlaine Tender Feeling Tennyson's thee theme Theocritus things thou thought tion touches treatment vast vocabulary winds words Wordsworth