The Rise of Romanticism: Essential TextsCarcanet New Press, 1978 - 363 pages |
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Page 170
... character ; but what can they urge to gain the latter ? Which of these characters is the most valuable and useful , is entirely out of the question : all I plead for , is , to have their several provinces kept distinct from each other ...
... character ; but what can they urge to gain the latter ? Which of these characters is the most valuable and useful , is entirely out of the question : all I plead for , is , to have their several provinces kept distinct from each other ...
Page 259
... character efficient like Richard ? It is every thing we can wish : Is it otherwise , like Hamlet ? It is productive of equal admiration : Action produces one mode of excellence , and inaction another : The Chronicle , the Novel , or the ...
... character efficient like Richard ? It is every thing we can wish : Is it otherwise , like Hamlet ? It is productive of equal admiration : Action produces one mode of excellence , and inaction another : The Chronicle , the Novel , or the ...
Page 312
... character , for reasons I may have occasion to observe hereafter , was ever predominant in the Faery Queen . His narration is subservient to his moral , and but serves to colour it . This he tells us himself at setting out . [ I. i . 9 ] ...
... character , for reasons I may have occasion to observe hereafter , was ever predominant in the Faery Queen . His narration is subservient to his moral , and but serves to colour it . This he tells us himself at setting out . [ I. i . 9 ] ...
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abstract admiration Aeneid ancient appear association beauty Berkeley Biographia Literaria Blake Blake's body Book of Urizen cause character classical colour composition concept connexion consider distance distinct duration Earth effect eighteenth century epistemology Essay eternal example existence extension Ezekiel Faery Queen fancy feeling finite genius Gothic Hartley hath heaven Hebrew Homer human imitation impressions infinite Joseph Warton kind language Lowth manner Maurice Morgann medullary substance memory mind motion mountains nature never Night Thoughts o'er objects obscure observed oriental original Ossian particular passions perceived perception perhaps philosophers pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's principle prophet proposition reader reason relation Robert Lowth Romantic Romanticism sacred seems sensation sense sensible sentiments sight simple ideas Smart soul space spirit sublime suggests suppose Theocritus theory things Thomas Warton thought Tintern Abbey verse vibrations visible Warton words Wordsworth's writing Young