Literary Hours: Or, Sketches Critical and Narrative, Volume 1Garland Pub., 1970 - English literature |
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Page 125
... poet and the painter have alike availed them- selves of the idea , and the pathetic inscription has here an effect that appeals powerfully to the heart . The most beautiful odes of Horace owe their charm to this very circumstance , and ...
... poet and the painter have alike availed them- selves of the idea , and the pathetic inscription has here an effect that appeals powerfully to the heart . The most beautiful odes of Horace owe their charm to this very circumstance , and ...
Page 145
... poet , when the full - formed system of mythology , will be rejected as in- volving too much fiction . Some attempts , however , have been lately made to revive the Scandinavian or Islandic mythology , and the sublime effusions of Gray ...
... poet , when the full - formed system of mythology , will be rejected as in- volving too much fiction . Some attempts , however , have been lately made to revive the Scandinavian or Islandic mythology , and the sublime effusions of Gray ...
Page 384
... poet , therefore , the materials of fiction and imagination , were to be drawn from that mine which Milton had so ... poet , and spring as it were from the very nature of the theme . The term fable , therefore , as applied to a poem ...
... poet , therefore , the materials of fiction and imagination , were to be drawn from that mine which Milton had so ... poet , and spring as it were from the very nature of the theme . The term fable , therefore , as applied to a poem ...
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