The Rise of Romanticism: Essential TextsCarcanet New Press, 1978 - 363 pages |
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Page 5
... true externality we had to deduce was , at best doubtful . A whole generation of poets in the mid - eighteenth century were to agree that ' feeling ' rather than reason was the source of true knowledge about the world , and were ...
... true externality we had to deduce was , at best doubtful . A whole generation of poets in the mid - eighteenth century were to agree that ' feeling ' rather than reason was the source of true knowledge about the world , and were ...
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... true eighteenth - century expression in Burnet , Addison , and Burke , is an experience of as it were , self - induced , non - rational and subjective spatial elevation . It is , as has been observed , not far from Berkeley on space ...
... true eighteenth - century expression in Burnet , Addison , and Burke , is an experience of as it were , self - induced , non - rational and subjective spatial elevation . It is , as has been observed , not far from Berkeley on space ...
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... true or false ; Turns truth to falsehood , falsehood into truth , By virtue of the Babylonian's tooth . Miscellaneous Thoughts . The inventor of the watch , if this doctrine be true , did not in reality invent it ; he only looked on ...
... true or false ; Turns truth to falsehood , falsehood into truth , By virtue of the Babylonian's tooth . Miscellaneous Thoughts . The inventor of the watch , if this doctrine be true , did not in reality invent it ; he only looked on ...
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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