Elements of CriticismHuntington and Savage, 1845 - 504 pages |
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Page 25
... period : the poet can find no pretext for an adventure so extraordi- nary , 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 extraordi- nary , 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 53
... periods of birth and increment ; and to give opportu- nity 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 by reiterated ...
... periods of birth and increment ; and to give opportu- nity 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 by reiterated ...
Page 55
... 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 ...
Page 88
... periods of computing time , passing and past - Exam- ples of time passing : Absence appears long to lovers - Time appears short to a criminal between sentence and execution - Time appears long when bodily pain is fixed to one part of ...
... periods of computing time , passing and past - Exam- ples of time passing : Absence appears long to lovers - Time appears short to a criminal between sentence and execution - Time appears long when bodily pain is fixed to one part of ...
Page 89
... periods ; one while it is passing , another after it is past : these computations shall be considered separately , with the errors to which each of them is liable . Beginning with computation of time , while it is passing , it is a ...
... periods ; one while it is passing , another after it is past : these computations shall be considered separately , with the errors to which each of them is liable . Beginning with computation of time , while it is passing , it is a ...
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