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... Poetry and Music - in Sculpture and Painting . 24. Pope and Milton . 25. English Verse - its Nature and Character . 26. General distinct Characters of Verse and Prose . 27. Verse necessary to Poetry , and wherefore . 28. Paradise Lost ...
... Poetry and Music - in Sculpture and Painting . 24. Pope and Milton . 25. English Verse - its Nature and Character . 26. General distinct Characters of Verse and Prose . 27. Verse necessary to Poetry , and wherefore . 28. Paradise Lost ...
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... Poetry . 41. In Painting . 42. Symbolical Figures . 43. Of Deities . 44. From Poetry , particularly the Iliad . Uniformity of Design among the Greeks . 45. Truth of Expression . The Laocoon . 46. Michael Angelo . 47. Extravagance in ...
... Poetry . 41. In Painting . 42. Symbolical Figures . 43. Of Deities . 44. From Poetry , particularly the Iliad . Uniformity of Design among the Greeks . 45. Truth of Expression . The Laocoon . 46. Michael Angelo . 47. Extravagance in ...
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... Poetry . 55. Homeric Heroes , how far suited to the Stage . 56. Reasons for Horace's recommending them . His Character of Achilles examined . 57. Ulysses of Euripides , and Æneas of Virgil . 58. Judgment of Virgil . 59. His peculiar ...
... Poetry . 55. Homeric Heroes , how far suited to the Stage . 56. Reasons for Horace's recommending them . His Character of Achilles examined . 57. Ulysses of Euripides , and Æneas of Virgil . 58. Judgment of Virgil . 59. His peculiar ...
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... Poetry ; their comparative Influ- ence on the Passions . 24. Acting and Reading . 25. Energies of Reason and Passion . Cato . Achilles . 26. Passion in Poetry may be too reasonable . 27. Madness . Folly . Perverted Energy . Weakness ...
... Poetry ; their comparative Influ- ence on the Passions . 24. Acting and Reading . 25. Energies of Reason and Passion . Cato . Achilles . 26. Passion in Poetry may be too reasonable . 27. Madness . Folly . Perverted Energy . Weakness ...
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... Poets , Painters , & c . 28. How far they are really useful to Society . 29. Erroneous Estimates of Life and Manners . 30. Causes of Disgust between the Sexes . 31. The most trivial most effective . 32. In other Objects . Mental ...
... Poets , Painters , & c . 28. How far they are really useful to Society . 29. Erroneous Estimates of Life and Manners . 30. Causes of Disgust between the Sexes . 31. The most trivial most effective . 32. In other Objects . Mental ...
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