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... passionate heart . Such was OVID's ; who , taking advantage of this character of the elegy , contrived a new kind of poetry , without the expence of much invention , or labour to himself . For , collecting , as it were , those scattered ...
... passionate heart . Such was OVID's ; who , taking advantage of this character of the elegy , contrived a new kind of poetry , without the expence of much invention , or labour to himself . For , collecting , as it were , those scattered ...
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... passion . It catches at remote and dis- tant hints , and starts at once into a digressive train of thinking , which it requires some degree of enthu- siasm in the reader to follow . Further than this it is not material to my present ...
... passion . It catches at remote and dis- tant hints , and starts at once into a digressive train of thinking , which it requires some degree of enthu- siasm in the reader to follow . Further than this it is not material to my present ...
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... passionate parts , will admit of a tragic elevation : and , 2. Tragedy , in its soft distressful scenes , condescends to the ease of familiar conversation . But the poet had a further view in chusing this instance . For he gets by this ...
... passionate parts , will admit of a tragic elevation : and , 2. Tragedy , in its soft distressful scenes , condescends to the ease of familiar conversation . But the poet had a further view in chusing this instance . For he gets by this ...
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... if tremblingly alive all o'er- ) But his flaw'd heart , Alack , too weak the conflict to support , " Twixt two extremes of Passion , joy and grief , Burst smilingly- Lear , A. v . S. 8 . S. By figurative terms ; i . e . by 82 NOTES ON THE.
... if tremblingly alive all o'er- ) But his flaw'd heart , Alack , too weak the conflict to support , " Twixt two extremes of Passion , joy and grief , Burst smilingly- Lear , A. v . S. 8 . S. By figurative terms ; i . e . by 82 NOTES ON THE.
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... passion of wonder , which Phi- losophy would cure us of , is of singular use in raising the conception , and strengthening the ex- pression of poets . And such is always the condition of old writers , when the arts are reviving , or but ...
... passion of wonder , which Phi- losophy would cure us of , is of singular use in raising the conception , and strengthening the ex- pression of poets . And such is always the condition of old writers , when the arts are reviving , or but ...
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