The Rise of Romanticism: Essential TextsCarcanet New Press, 1978 - 363 pages |
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... experience of verse is already noticeable in the poetry of Thomson and Young ( both of whom embraced Burnet's cosmology and his ' Sublime ' ) in the early part of the century . It becomes more apparent in Collins , for example in the ...
... experience of verse is already noticeable in the poetry of Thomson and Young ( both of whom embraced Burnet's cosmology and his ' Sublime ' ) in the early part of the century . It becomes more apparent in Collins , for example in the ...
Page 133
... experience and observation , as in all other natural events and in the operation of external objects . * Our authority over our sentiments and passions is much weaker than that over our ideas ; and even the latter authority is ...
... experience and observation , as in all other natural events and in the operation of external objects . * Our authority over our sentiments and passions is much weaker than that over our ideas ; and even the latter authority is ...
Page 135
... experience , we may be assured that this fancied experience has no authority when we thus apply it to subjects that lie entirely out of the sphere of experience . But on this we shall have occasion to touch afterwards . Secondly , I ...
... experience , we may be assured that this fancied experience has no authority when we thus apply it to subjects that lie entirely out of the sphere of experience . But on this we shall have occasion to touch afterwards . Secondly , I ...
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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