The Rise of Romanticism: Essential TextsCarcanet New Press, 1978 - 363 pages |
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Page 275
... Language ' Language , in general , signifies the expression of our ideas by certain articulate sounds , which are used as the signs of those ideas . By articulate sounds , are meant those modulations of simple voice , or of sound ...
... Language ' Language , in general , signifies the expression of our ideas by certain articulate sounds , which are used as the signs of those ideas . By articulate sounds , are meant those modulations of simple voice , or of sound ...
Page 276
... Language ? One would think , that in order to any Language fixing and extending itself , men must have been previously gathered together in considerable numbers ; society must have been already far advanced ; and yet , on the other hand ...
... Language ? One would think , that in order to any Language fixing and extending itself , men must have been previously gathered together in considerable numbers ; society must have been already far advanced ; and yet , on the other hand ...
Page 277
... Language of men being entirely made up of words descriptive of sensible objects , it became , of necessity , extremely metaphorical . ** For , to signify any desire or passion , or any act or feeling of the mind , they had no precise ...
... Language of men being entirely made up of words descriptive of sensible objects , it became , of necessity , extremely metaphorical . ** For , to signify any desire or passion , or any act or feeling of the mind , they had no precise ...
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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