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So that what painting gives to the mind by that most pleasing of all our senses the light , poetry conveys , as it were , by speech , but conveys it in a manner fo lively and affe & ting , that a picture or image of it is immediately ...
So that what painting gives to the mind by that most pleasing of all our senses the light , poetry conveys , as it were , by speech , but conveys it in a manner fo lively and affe & ting , that a picture or image of it is immediately ...
Page 151
... and disagreeable , the first pleasing object he meets , will obliterate , as it were , all traces in the memory :: but let the same boy actually measure a real room , or a piece of land , with a chain , and he will never forget it .
... and disagreeable , the first pleasing object he meets , will obliterate , as it were , all traces in the memory :: but let the same boy actually measure a real room , or a piece of land , with a chain , and he will never forget it .
Page 166
... in labour'd Aets , the pleasing rage Cannot by turns our hopes and fears engage , Nor in our minds a feeling pity raise , In vain with learned Scenes he fills his Plays . As the Fable , or Main - plot , consifts of many incidents or ...
... in labour'd Aets , the pleasing rage Cannot by turns our hopes and fears engage , Nor in our minds a feeling pity raise , In vain with learned Scenes he fills his Plays . As the Fable , or Main - plot , consifts of many incidents or ...
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| Title | The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets ; and of Translations from the Ancients ... Volume 2 of The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets; and of Translations from the Ancients, John Newbery |
| Author | John Newbery |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 27, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0576029947, 9780576029940 |
| Length | 382 pages |
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