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... composition ; and courted the temporary applause of the ignorant instead of the lasting approbation of the discerning . But such im- posture must be short and transitory . The body and substance of any valuable composition must be form ...
... composition ; and courted the temporary applause of the ignorant instead of the lasting approbation of the discerning . But such im- posture must be short and transitory . The body and substance of any valuable composition must be form ...
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... composition , what interests the imagination , and touches the heart , gives pleasure to all ages and na- tions . There is a certain string , which being pro- perly struck , the human heart is so made , as to ac- cord to it . Hence the ...
... composition , what interests the imagination , and touches the heart , gives pleasure to all ages and na- tions . There is a certain string , which being pro- perly struck , the human heart is so made , as to ac- cord to it . Hence the ...
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... composition , were not first discovered by logical reasoning , and then applied to poetry ; but they were deduced from the practice of Homer and Sophocles . They were founded upon observing the superior pleasure which we derive from the ...
... composition , were not first discovered by logical reasoning , and then applied to poetry ; but they were deduced from the practice of Homer and Sophocles . They were founded upon observing the superior pleasure which we derive from the ...
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... composition must always be laid in the nature of the object described . Unless it be such an object , as , if presented to our sight , if exhibited to us in reality , would excite ideas of that elevating , that awful and magnificent ...
... composition must always be laid in the nature of the object described . Unless it be such an object , as , if presented to our sight , if exhibited to us in reality , would excite ideas of that elevating , that awful and magnificent ...
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... composition . But in narrative or descriptive works , it cannot with propriety be so call- ed . Who , for example , would call Virgil's description of a tempest , in the first Eneid , an imitation of a storm ? If we heard of the ...
... composition . But in narrative or descriptive works , it cannot with propriety be so call- ed . Who , for example , would call Virgil's description of a tempest , in the first Eneid , an imitation of a storm ? If we heard of the ...
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