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... strength , combines various sources of the sublime ; and has consequently been ever considered as one of the most striking and magnificent spectacles which can be either presented to the eye , or exhibited to the imagination in ...
... strength , combines various sources of the sublime ; and has consequently been ever considered as one of the most striking and magnificent spectacles which can be either presented to the eye , or exhibited to the imagination in ...
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... strength and force either enter not directly , or are not at least inti mately associated , by conducting our thoughts to some astonishing power as concerned in the produc tion of the object . What has been imagined by an ingenious ...
... strength and force either enter not directly , or are not at least inti mately associated , by conducting our thoughts to some astonishing power as concerned in the produc tion of the object . What has been imagined by an ingenious ...
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... strength , conciseness , and simplicity . This depends chiefly upon the lively impression , which the poet or orator has of the object , which he exhibits ; and upon his being deeply affected and ani- mated by the sublime idea which he ...
... strength , conciseness , and simplicity . This depends chiefly upon the lively impression , which the poet or orator has of the object , which he exhibits ; and upon his being deeply affected and ani- mated by the sublime idea which he ...
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... strength or sublimity . Of all writings , ancient or modern , the sacred scriptures afford the most striking instances of the sublime . In them the descriptions of the Supreme Being are wonderfully noble , both from the grandeur of the ...
... strength or sublimity . Of all writings , ancient or modern , the sacred scriptures afford the most striking instances of the sublime . In them the descriptions of the Supreme Being are wonderfully noble , both from the grandeur of the ...
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... strength of the feeling is emas- his grandeur ? -Examples . - Cite the passage from Pope's translation of the Iiad ? What is essential to sublime writing ? -What is simplicity opposed to - What conciseness ? -Show how a defect either in ...
... strength of the feeling is emas- his grandeur ? -Examples . - Cite the passage from Pope's translation of the Iiad ? What is essential to sublime writing ? -What is simplicity opposed to - What conciseness ? -Show how a defect either in ...
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