The Philadelphia Book: Or, Specimens of Metropolitan LiteratureKey & Biddle, 1836 - 380 páginas |
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... critics , it is scarcely possible to err . The fastidious reader will doubtless smile when he is informed that the work , thus highly praised , is a poem consisting only of four lines ; but as there is no reason why a poet should be ...
... critics , it is scarcely possible to err . The fastidious reader will doubtless smile when he is informed that the work , thus highly praised , is a poem consisting only of four lines ; but as there is no reason why a poet should be ...
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... critic , to analyze and display its various excellences . The opening of the poem is singularly beautiful : Jack and Gill . The first duty of the poet is to introduce his subject , and there is no part of poetry more difficult . We are ...
... critic , to analyze and display its various excellences . The opening of the poem is singularly beautiful : Jack and Gill . The first duty of the poet is to introduce his subject , and there is no part of poetry more difficult . We are ...
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... critic , with whom I am acquainted , has ever mentioned . It is this , that poetic beauties may be divided into negative and positive , the former consisting of mere absence of fault , the latter in the presence of excellence ; the ...
... critic , with whom I am acquainted , has ever mentioned . It is this , that poetic beauties may be divided into negative and positive , the former consisting of mere absence of fault , the latter in the presence of excellence ; the ...
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... critics , and admired by readers . Instead , however , of introducing a host of gods and godesses , who might have only impeded the journey of his heroes , by the intervention of the bucket , which is , as it ought to be , simple and ...
... critics , and admired by readers . Instead , however , of introducing a host of gods and godesses , who might have only impeded the journey of his heroes , by the intervention of the bucket , which is , as it ought to be , simple and ...
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... critic , Lord Kaims . He remarks that the pleasures of the ear and eye " approach the purely mental , without exhausting the spirits ; and exceed the purely sensual , without the danger of satiety . ” — That they have “ a natural ...
... critic , Lord Kaims . He remarks that the pleasures of the ear and eye " approach the purely mental , without exhausting the spirits ; and exceed the purely sensual , without the danger of satiety . ” — That they have “ a natural ...
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