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... effect of the one moral impression left by a great action treated as a whole , to the effect produced by the most striking single thought or by the happiest image . As he penetrates into the spirit of the great classical works , as he ...
... effect of the one moral impression left by a great action treated as a whole , to the effect produced by the most striking single thought or by the happiest image . As he penetrates into the spirit of the great classical works , as he ...
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... effect , and not by his single words , and who demands but one thing in a translation , —that it shall , as nearly as possible , re- produce for him the general effect of Homer . This , then , remains the one proper aim of the ...
... effect , and not by his single words , and who demands but one thing in a translation , —that it shall , as nearly as possible , re- produce for him the general effect of Homer . This , then , remains the one proper aim of the ...
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... effect quite different from Homer's is thus pro- duced . Therefore Mr. Newman , though he does not purposely 5 ... effect of nobleness , -the effect , too , of all others the most impalpable , the most irreducible to rule , and ...
... effect quite different from Homer's is thus pro- duced . Therefore Mr. Newman , though he does not purposely 5 ... effect of nobleness , -the effect , too , of all others the most impalpable , the most irreducible to rule , and ...
Contents
Preface to First Edition of Poems 1853 | 1 |
Preface to Second Edition of Poems 1854 | 16 |
England and the Italian Question | 65 |
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