The Rise of Romanticism: Essential TextsCarcanet New Press, 1978 - 363 pages |
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Page 68
... visible appearance as to faintness and all other respects , if placed on high , shall not suggest the same magnitude that it would if it were seen at an equal distance on a level with the eye . The reason whereof is that we are rarely ...
... visible appearance as to faintness and all other respects , if placed on high , shall not suggest the same magnitude that it would if it were seen at an equal distance on a level with the eye . The reason whereof is that we are rarely ...
Page 69
... visible but of the tangible object . This duly considered , it will be no hard matter to reconcile the seeming contradiction there is , that the moon should appear of a different bigness , the visible magnitude thereof remaining still ...
... visible but of the tangible object . This duly considered , it will be no hard matter to reconcile the seeming contradiction there is , that the moon should appear of a different bigness , the visible magnitude thereof remaining still ...
Page 229
... visible ideas ; and , vice versa , their visible appearances impressed on the eye raise up those powers of reconnoitring [ i.e. re - experiencing ] their names , smells , tastes , and tangible qualities , which may not improperly be ...
... visible ideas ; and , vice versa , their visible appearances impressed on the eye raise up those powers of reconnoitring [ i.e. re - experiencing ] their names , smells , tastes , and tangible qualities , which may not improperly be ...
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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