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We find there a close imitation of men and manners ; we see the very web and texture of society as it really exists , and as we meet with it when we come into the world . If poetry has something more divine in it , ' this savours more ...
We find there a close imitation of men and manners ; we see the very web and texture of society as it really exists , and as we meet with it when we come into the world . If poetry has something more divine in it , ' this savours more ...
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Both are exquisite imitations of nature ; the one in marble , the other in words . ... But in this direct and simple imitation of nature , as in describing the form of a beautiful woman , the poet is greatly inferior to the sculptor ...
Both are exquisite imitations of nature ; the one in marble , the other in words . ... But in this direct and simple imitation of nature , as in describing the form of a beautiful woman , the poet is greatly inferior to the sculptor ...
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The two principles of imitation and imagination , indeed , are not only distinct , but almost opposite . : The great difference , then , which we find between the classical and the romantic style , between ancient and modern poetry ...
The two principles of imitation and imagination , indeed , are not only distinct , but almost opposite . : The great difference , then , which we find between the classical and the romantic style , between ancient and modern poetry ...
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| Title | The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6 The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Editors | Percival Presland Howe, Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover |
| Compiled by | James Thornton |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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