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... Blending and Balancing of Instinctive and Reflective Tendencies , which
express the Emotive Nature . WORDSWORTH , in one of his finest passages ,
says of the results of his studies in poetry : I have learned To look on nature , not
as in the ...
... Blending and Balancing of Instinctive and Reflective Tendencies , which
express the Emotive Nature . WORDSWORTH , in one of his finest passages ,
says of the results of his studies in poetry : I have learned To look on nature , not
as in the ...
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... of his impressions , he stops to think - sometimes to think twice - of what he is to
say , and so uses slow time ; or , to look at the subject from a different view - point
, a speaker , when not desirous of conveying to others the impression that 37.
... of his impressions , he stops to think - sometimes to think twice - of what he is to
say , and so uses slow time ; or , to look at the subject from a different view - point
, a speaker , when not desirous of conveying to others the impression that 37.
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Two Voices : Tennyson , Strike , and when the fight is over , If ye look in vain for
me , Where the dead are lying thickest Look for him who was Dundee . -Burial
March of Dundee : Aytoun . How firm a foundation , ye saints of the Lord , Is laid
for ...
Two Voices : Tennyson , Strike , and when the fight is over , If ye look in vain for
me , Where the dead are lying thickest Look for him who was Dundee . -Burial
March of Dundee : Aytoun . How firm a foundation , ye saints of the Lord , Is laid
for ...
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Pale was the perfect face ; The bosom with long sighs labored ; and meek
Seemed the full lips , and mild the luminous eyes , And the voice trembled and
the hand . - The Princess : Tennyson . Look once more now at the passage from
weak ...
Pale was the perfect face ; The bosom with long sighs labored ; and meek
Seemed the full lips , and mild the luminous eyes , And the voice trembled and
the hand . - The Princess : Tennyson . Look once more now at the passage from
weak ...
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Look once more now at the passage from weak force to strong , as well as from
fast time to slow , in the following : The cherubim descended ; on the ground
Gliding meteorous , as evening mist Ris'n from a river o'er the marish glides , And
...
Look once more now at the passage from weak force to strong , as well as from
fast time to slow , in the following : The cherubim descended ; on the ground
Gliding meteorous , as evening mist Ris'n from a river o'er the marish glides , And
...
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| Title | Poetry as a Representative Art: An Essay in Comparative Aesthetics Volume 3 of Comparative æsthetics, George Lansing Raymond |
| Author | George Lansing Raymond |
| Edition | 7 |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1899 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Feb 2007 |
| ISBN | 0841472742, 9780841472747 |
| Length | 356 pages |
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