The Rise of Romanticism: Essential TextsCarcanet New Press, 1978 - 363 pages |
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Page 131
... light themselves , but may throw light on their correspon- dent ideas , which lie in obscurity . And by this means , we may , perhaps , attain a new microscope * or species of optics , by which , in the moral sciences , the most minute ...
... light themselves , but may throw light on their correspon- dent ideas , which lie in obscurity . And by this means , we may , perhaps , attain a new microscope * or species of optics , by which , in the moral sciences , the most minute ...
Page 192
... light of love . II . 1 Man's feeble race what ills await , Labour , and penury , the racks of pain , Disease , and sorrow's weeping train , And death , sad refuge from the storms of fate ! The fond complaint , my song , disprove , And ...
... light of love . II . 1 Man's feeble race what ills await , Labour , and penury , the racks of pain , Disease , and sorrow's weeping train , And death , sad refuge from the storms of fate ! The fond complaint , my song , disprove , And ...
Page 200
... lights in which we may consider him . The horse in the light of an useful beast , fit for the plough , the road , the draft , in every social useful light the horse has nothing of the sublime ; but is it thus that we are affected with ...
... lights in which we may consider him . The horse in the light of an useful beast , fit for the plough , the road , the draft , in every social useful light the horse has nothing of the sublime ; but is it thus that we are affected with ...
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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