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... interest in them , as we see them in a different point of view , nearer or at a greater dis- tance ( morally or physically speaking ) from no- velty , from old acquaintance , from our ignorance of them , from our fear of their ...
... interest in them , as we see them in a different point of view , nearer or at a greater dis- tance ( morally or physically speaking ) from no- velty , from old acquaintance , from our ignorance of them , from our fear of their ...
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... progress of events : but it is during the progress , in the interval of expectation and suspense , while our hopes and fears are strained to the highest pitch of breathless agony , that the pinch of the interest 20 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... progress of events : but it is during the progress , in the interval of expectation and suspense , while our hopes and fears are strained to the highest pitch of breathless agony , that the pinch of the interest 20 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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... interest lies . " Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion , all the interim is Like a phantasma ... interests us most . - But it may be asked then , Is there any thing better than Claude Lorraine's landscapes , than ...
... interest lies . " Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion , all the interim is Like a phantasma ... interests us most . - But it may be asked then , Is there any thing better than Claude Lorraine's landscapes , than ...
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... interest is worked up to an inconceivable height ; but it is by an infinite number of little things , by incessant labour and calls upon the attention , by a repetition of blows that have no rebound in them . The sympathy excited is not ...
... interest is worked up to an inconceivable height ; but it is by an infinite number of little things , by incessant labour and calls upon the attention , by a repetition of blows that have no rebound in them . The sympathy excited is not ...
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... interest ; and he interests only by exciting our sympathy with the emotion by which he is himself possessed . He does not place before us the objects by which that emotion has been excited ; but he seizes on the attention , by shewing ...
... interest ; and he interests only by exciting our sympathy with the emotion by which he is himself possessed . He does not place before us the objects by which that emotion has been excited ; but he seizes on the attention , by shewing ...
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