Letters to Lord Byron on a Question of Poetical Criticism: With Corrections, to which are ... Added the Letter to Mr. Campbell, as Far as Regards Põetical Criticism, and the Answer to the Writer in the Quarterly Review, Together with an Answer to Some Objections, and Further Illus |
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... prove that works of art are not less adapted to poetry than what is beautiful and magnificent in nature . This example is discussed in the letter first addressed to him ; and his objection , that I con- fined my ideas of poetry to ...
... prove that works of art are not less adapted to poetry than what is beautiful and magnificent in nature . This example is discussed in the letter first addressed to him ; and his objection , that I con- fined my ideas of poetry to ...
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... prove , by fair and manly argumentation , without petty cavils , that art is generally more poetical , more adapted to the higher orders of poetry , than nature ; manners and habits of a given period in Those who have followed after ...
... prove , by fair and manly argumentation , without petty cavils , that art is generally more poetical , more adapted to the higher orders of poetry , than nature ; manners and habits of a given period in Those who have followed after ...
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... prove those principles invulnerable , even when your Lordship assails them ; if I cannot answer all your arguments as plainly and as dis- tinctly as you have adduced them ; the term " invariable " I shall instantly discard . On the ...
... prove those principles invulnerable , even when your Lordship assails them ; if I cannot answer all your arguments as plainly and as dis- tinctly as you have adduced them ; the term " invariable " I shall instantly discard . On the ...
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... prove " that " no object is poetical " in art or nature , per se . The definition here given will nullify one half of his book at once ; but I do not care one jot whether he has " proved " this , as he manfully asserts , or not . I said ...
... prove " that " no object is poetical " in art or nature , per se . The definition here given will nullify one half of his book at once ; but I do not care one jot whether he has " proved " this , as he manfully asserts , or not . I said ...
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... proved that he could not go far : and ' The streams that shine between the hills , The grots that echo to the tinkling rills , ' were possibly transcripts of what he could most easily transcribe , -his own views and scenery . in ...
... proved that he could not go far : and ' The streams that shine between the hills , The grots that echo to the tinkling rills , ' were possibly transcripts of what he could most easily transcribe , -his own views and scenery . in ...
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1891 ORGANIZED 1891 UNIVERSITY abstractedly ACHILLES adapted to poetry admitted affecting answer arguments artificial associations beautiful in nature blue bunting BOWLES BowLES's bust CAMPBELL CAMPBELL's canal circumstances derived described Edinburgh Review ERSITY execution exquisite external nature feelings genius Georgics heart highest HOMER Hounslow Heath ideas Iliad images drawn images from art in-door nature JUNIOR STANFORD LELAND STANFORD UNIVERSITY LELAND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES LELAND Lord BYRON Lordship Macbeth manners MILTON moral never object observe ORGANIZED 1891 Paddington painting Paradise Lost passage passions pathetic Philoctetes picture picturesque pigsty poet poetical beauty poetical character poetical sublimity POPE POPE's principles of poetry proposition Quarterly Review reader Roman holiday sails Salisbury Plain satires SHAKESPEARE shew ship SOPHOCLES speak STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY STANFORD LELAND STANFORD STANFORD ORGANIZED sublime and beautiful sublime or beautiful super-artificial THEOCRITUS thing thought tical trees UNIVE UNIVERSITY LELAND UNWIN's needle Venice waves winds word writer
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Page 61 - Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday, — All this rushed with his blood. — Shall he expire, And unavenged ? — Arise ! ye Goths, and glut your ire!