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... produces on them the effect of reality . No man , whatever his sensibility may be , is ever affected by Hamlet or Lear ... produced on their ruder of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , according to Plato , could not recite Homer without ...
... produces on them the effect of reality . No man , whatever his sensibility may be , is ever affected by Hamlet or Lear ... produced on their ruder of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , according to Plato , could not recite Homer without ...
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... produce upon us an effect wholly independent of their intrinsic value . One transports us back to a remote period of ... produced , not so much ble to conceive that the mechanism of language by what expresses , as by what it suggests ...
... produce upon us an effect wholly independent of their intrinsic value . One transports us back to a remote period of ... produced , not so much ble to conceive that the mechanism of language by what expresses , as by what it suggests ...
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... produce an illusion . Euripides at- offer some marked points of resemblance . tempted to carry the reform further . But ... produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter , or the en- trance of a scene - shifter . Hence it was that the ...
... produce an illusion . Euripides at- offer some marked points of resemblance . tempted to carry the reform further . But ... produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter , or the en- trance of a scene - shifter . Hence it was that the ...
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... produce , for a single moment , a deception on the imagination . Of all the poets who have introduced into their ... produced , in a few centuries , the innu . merable crowd of gods and goddesses . In like manner the ancient Persians ...
... produce , for a single moment , a deception on the imagination . Of all the poets who have introduced into their ... produced , in a few centuries , the innu . merable crowd of gods and goddesses . In like manner the ancient Persians ...
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... produce no illusion when it is employed to represent that which is at once . The Spirits of Milton are unlike those of ... produced by the pencil or the chisel . But it is picturesque to the exclusion of all mystery . This is a fault ...
... produce no illusion when it is employed to represent that which is at once . The Spirits of Milton are unlike those of ... produced by the pencil or the chisel . But it is picturesque to the exclusion of all mystery . This is a fault ...
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