Elements of CriticismA. S. Barnes, 1883 - 486 pages |
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Page 36
... period : the poet can find no pretext for an adventure so extraordinary , but the hero's longing to visit the ghost of his father , recently dead in the mean time the story is interrupted , and the reader loses his ardor . Pity it is ...
... period : the poet can find no pretext for an adventure so extraordinary , but the hero's longing to visit the ghost of his father , recently dead in the mean time the story is interrupted , and the reader loses his ardor . Pity it is ...
Page 65
... periods of birth and increment ; and to give opportunity for these different periods , it is necessary that the cause of every emotion be present to the mind a due time ; for an emotion is not carried to its height but by reiterated ...
... periods of birth and increment ; and to give opportunity for these different periods , it is necessary that the cause of every emotion be present to the mind a due time ; for an emotion is not carried to its height but by reiterated ...
Page 68
... period ; for that is an anticlimax in description : Through breaking ranks his furious course he bends , And at the goddess his broad lance extends : Through her bright veil the daring weapon drove , Th ' ambrosial veil , which all the ...
... period ; for that is an anticlimax in description : Through breaking ranks his furious course he bends , And at the goddess his broad lance extends : Through her bright veil the daring weapon drove , Th ' ambrosial veil , which all the ...
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... period one or other of the former objects will intrude , perhaps oftener than once , till the attention be fixed entirely upon the new object . The same observations are applicable to ideas suggested by language : the mind can bear a ...
... period one or other of the former objects will intrude , perhaps oftener than once , till the attention be fixed entirely upon the new object . The same observations are applicable to ideas suggested by language : the mind can bear a ...
Page 220
... period of life , generally speaking , we eat at a certain hour , take exercise at a cer- tain hour , go to rest at a certain hour , all by the direction of habit ; nay , a particular seat , table , bed , comes to be essential ; and a ...
... period of life , generally speaking , we eat at a certain hour , take exercise at a cer- tain hour , go to rest at a certain hour , all by the direction of habit ; nay , a particular seat , table , bed , comes to be essential ; and a ...
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