Critical Observations on the Writings of the Most Celebrated Original Geniuses in PoetryA psychology of the creative process dealing with the operations of the human mind, with the effect of art on the reader or spectator, & with the means of achieving particular effects. |
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William Duff. our theory by a few examples from Homer . An example of true fublimity of sentiment occurs in the seventeenth book of the Iliad , which is too generally known and applauded to stand in need of a commentary , but which I ...
William Duff. our theory by a few examples from Homer . An example of true fublimity of sentiment occurs in the seventeenth book of the Iliad , which is too generally known and applauded to stand in need of a commentary , but which I ...
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... examples of pathetic fentiment . No Poet ever knew better how to penetrate and to melt the heart than Shakespeare . A few paffages culled out from his writings will convince us of his power over the paffions . Queen Margaret and her fon ...
... examples of pathetic fentiment . No Poet ever knew better how to penetrate and to melt the heart than Shakespeare . A few paffages culled out from his writings will convince us of his power over the paffions . Queen Margaret and her fon ...
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... examples of an irregular grandeur of imagination , rejecting the restraint of rules , and aiming in all its conceptions at some- thing vaft and marvellous . Of an agreeable and happy wildness of imagination we have examples in the ftory ...
... examples of an irregular grandeur of imagination , rejecting the restraint of rules , and aiming in all its conceptions at some- thing vaft and marvellous . Of an agreeable and happy wildness of imagination we have examples in the ftory ...
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Achilles adduce affecting againſt Alcinous allegorical appears Armida aſtoniſhing beautiful Cant canto characteriſtic characters circumſtances compofition dæmons death defirous deſcribed deſcription diſcovered diſplay diſtinguiſhed dreadful Duff Duff's Epic Poetry exhibited exiſtence fame fcene feems fenfibility fentiment fhall fhew fiction Fingal firſt fituation flain folemn fome fpecies fublime fuch fuperior furprizing ghoft ghoſts hath heaven hero higheſt himſelf Homer Iliad imagination incidents inftances invention itſelf juſt laft laſt leaſt likewiſe Lotophagi meaſure mind moft moſt muſt nature obferve occafion Offian original Genius original Poetic Genius paffage paffion pathetic perfons pictureſque pleaſe pleaſure poems Poet Poetry poffeffed preſent primitivist purpoſe racters raiſe reader remarkably repreſentation repreſented reſpect Rinaldo ſcene ſeems ſeveral Shakeſpeare ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome ſpecies ſpirit ſtate ſtill ſtrength ſtriking ſubject ſuch supernatural ſuppoſe Tancred tenderneſs thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou tion utmoſt Voltaire whofe whoſe wildneſs δε τε