Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831 |
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... soul of the hearer , -playing upon his passions as upon a lyre , and making him to feel as though he were holding converse with a spirit ; this is the art of Nature herself , invariably and perpetually pleasing , by a secret and ...
... soul of the hearer , -playing upon his passions as upon a lyre , and making him to feel as though he were holding converse with a spirit ; this is the art of Nature herself , invariably and perpetually pleasing , by a secret and ...
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... soul and body , which cannot be separated without death , - -a death in which the dis- solution of the one causes the disappearance of the other ; if the spell of the words be broken , the charm of the idea is lost . Thus nothing can be ...
... soul and body , which cannot be separated without death , - -a death in which the dis- solution of the one causes the disappearance of the other ; if the spell of the words be broken , the charm of the idea is lost . Thus nothing can be ...
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... soul ; their associations are always clear and easily comprehensible : whereas music , when it is not allied to language , or does not appeal to memory , is simply a sensual and vague , though an innocent and highly exhilarating delight ...
... soul ; their associations are always clear and easily comprehensible : whereas music , when it is not allied to language , or does not appeal to memory , is simply a sensual and vague , though an innocent and highly exhilarating delight ...
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... soul through every gradation of thought and feeling , producing its great- est effects at the last . Painting begins precisely where poetry breaks off , with the climax of the subject , and lets down the mind from the catas- trophe ...
... soul through every gradation of thought and feeling , producing its great- est effects at the last . Painting begins precisely where poetry breaks off , with the climax of the subject , and lets down the mind from the catas- trophe ...
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... soul informing the marble , the personal character stamped upon the features , these are the highest attempts of the highest minds , in the highest of the imitative arts . It follows that mediocrity is less tolerable in sculpture than ...
... soul informing the marble , the personal character stamped upon the features , these are the highest attempts of the highest minds , in the highest of the imitative arts . It follows that mediocrity is less tolerable in sculpture than ...
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