Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Page 126
... sentiments and the diction . The sentiments , as expressive of manners , or appro- priated to characters , are , for the greater part un- exceptionably just . Splendid passages , containing lessons of morality , or precepts of prudence ...
... sentiments and the diction . The sentiments , as expressive of manners , or appro- priated to characters , are , for the greater part un- exceptionably just . Splendid passages , containing lessons of morality , or precepts of prudence ...
Page 153
Samuel Johnson. consists in a disproportion between the style and the sentiments , or between the adventitious sentiments and the fundamental subject . It therefore , like all bodies compounded of heterogeneous parts , contains in it a ...
Samuel Johnson. consists in a disproportion between the style and the sentiments , or between the adventitious sentiments and the fundamental subject . It therefore , like all bodies compounded of heterogeneous parts , contains in it a ...
Page 449
... sentiments in elegant language , than a representation of natural affections , or of any state probable or possible in human life . Nothing here excites or assuages emotion ; here is no magical power of raising phantastick terror or ...
... sentiments in elegant language , than a representation of natural affections , or of any state probable or possible in human life . Nothing here excites or assuages emotion ; here is no magical power of raising phantastick terror or ...
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