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... perfection , to whose verdict we shall find that both taste and understanding must bow . But are we not to love a thing simply for its beauty ? Must we always be extracting a moral from such things ? Emphatically - no . Indeed , to ...
... perfection , to whose verdict we shall find that both taste and understanding must bow . But are we not to love a thing simply for its beauty ? Must we always be extracting a moral from such things ? Emphatically - no . Indeed , to ...
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... perfection is the only true motive : and this harmonizes exactly with what before we defined as the object of the true poet - namely , to reveal the secret of nature ; for that secret is ideal loveliness , beauty and harmony lying at ...
... perfection is the only true motive : and this harmonizes exactly with what before we defined as the object of the true poet - namely , to reveal the secret of nature ; for that secret is ideal loveliness , beauty and harmony lying at ...
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... perfection ( often , indeed , more perfect than we can find it in nature ) , so that , by fixing our eyes on this image , we receive , often unconsciously , through the senses , a direct reflection , or echo , as it were , of infinite ...
... perfection ( often , indeed , more perfect than we can find it in nature ) , so that , by fixing our eyes on this image , we receive , often unconsciously , through the senses , a direct reflection , or echo , as it were , of infinite ...
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... perfection of form , using natural material things merely as its illustrations , turning from natural im- perfection to point upwards to the infinite . As regards form , then , and the perfectness of art depends on form , -we naturally ...
... perfection of form , using natural material things merely as its illustrations , turning from natural im- perfection to point upwards to the infinite . As regards form , then , and the perfectness of art depends on form , -we naturally ...
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... perfection of form ; and this is what we find to be the case . As regards the absence of all that might even momentarily distract the attention , we have already seen that a poet may introduce all kind of scenes taken from any time or ...
... perfection of form ; and this is what we find to be the case . As regards the absence of all that might even momentarily distract the attention , we have already seen that a poet may introduce all kind of scenes taken from any time or ...
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Page 83 - I see before me the Gladiator lie; He leans upon his hand, — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony. And his drooped head sinks gradually low, And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow, From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him, — he is gone Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 198 - Lyrical Ballads, in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic — yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief, for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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