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Page 44
... POETRY . " No department of English poetry , " said Egeria , one evening after tea , on taking up a volume of Ben Jonson's works , " no department of English poetry is more rich in beautiful passages than the dramatic , and none of ...
... POETRY . " No department of English poetry , " said Egeria , one evening after tea , on taking up a volume of Ben Jonson's works , " no department of English poetry is more rich in beautiful passages than the dramatic , and none of ...
Page 441
... poetry and music as the intellectual . The former address themselves at once to our senses . Their aim is to ex- hibit the resemblances of things which we have seen , but the latter address themselves to the mind , and call up trains of ...
... poetry and music as the intellectual . The former address themselves at once to our senses . Their aim is to ex- hibit the resemblances of things which we have seen , but the latter address themselves to the mind , and call up trains of ...
Page 442
... poetry of all nations . The more de- tached , unmixed , and steady the society of any country preserves itself , the more original and singular should be the characteristics of its poetry ; and by the same rule , according to the ...
... poetry of all nations . The more de- tached , unmixed , and steady the society of any country preserves itself , the more original and singular should be the characteristics of its poetry ; and by the same rule , according to the ...
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