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Page 146
There are things which are cognisable only to sense , which interest only our more immediate instincts and ... and of greater refinement , which to be grand must extend beyond ourselves to others , and our interests in which must be ...
There are things which are cognisable only to sense , which interest only our more immediate instincts and ... and of greater refinement , which to be grand must extend beyond ourselves to others , and our interests in which must be ...
Page 147
The whole is intensely personal and local : but the interest of the ideal and poetical style of art , relates to more permanent and universal objects ; and the characters and forms must be such as to correspond with and sustain that ...
The whole is intensely personal and local : but the interest of the ideal and poetical style of art , relates to more permanent and universal objects ; and the characters and forms must be such as to correspond with and sustain that ...
Page 348
But the ruins of a Gothic castle have no beauty or symmetry to attract the eye ; and yet they excite a more powerful and romantic interest , from the ideas with which they are habitually associated . If , in addition to this , we are ...
But the ruins of a Gothic castle have no beauty or symmetry to attract the eye ; and yet they excite a more powerful and romantic interest , from the ideas with which they are habitually associated . If , in addition to this , we are ...
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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 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2009 |
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