English Poetry and Prose of the Romantic MovementGeorge Benjamin Woods Scott, Foresman, 1950 - 1538 pages |
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Page 348
... pleasure ; who will converse with us as gravely about a taste for poetry , as they express it , as if it were a thing as indifferent as a taste for rope - dancing , or Frontiniac or Sherry.1 Aristotle , I have been told , has said that ...
... pleasure ; who will converse with us as gravely about a taste for poetry , as they express it , as if it were a thing as indifferent as a taste for rope - dancing , or Frontiniac or Sherry.1 Aristotle , I have been told , has said that ...
Page 350
... pleasure which arises from hear- ing what we do not understand , the poet must descend from this supposed height ; and , in order to excite rational sympathy , he must express himself as other men ex- press themselves . To this it may ...
... pleasure which arises from hear- ing what we do not understand , the poet must descend from this supposed height ; and , in order to excite rational sympathy , he must express himself as other men ex- press themselves . To this it may ...
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... pleasure -an effect which , in a much greater degree than might at first be imagined , is to be ascribed to small , but continual and regu- lar impulses of pleasurable surprise from the metrical arrangement . - On the other 45 hand ...
... pleasure -an effect which , in a much greater degree than might at first be imagined , is to be ascribed to small , but continual and regu- lar impulses of pleasurable surprise from the metrical arrangement . - On the other 45 hand ...
Contents
Eighteenth Century | 1 |
ALLAN RAMSAY 1685?1758 | 7 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIES | 21 |
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