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... beauty it has , and the meaning , are ideal ; and therefore cannot be impaired by any want of realism . Error and violation of likelihood or fact which would damn a work of Balzac's or of Thackeray's cannot even lower or lessen the rank ...
... beauty it has , and the meaning , are ideal ; and therefore cannot be impaired by any want of realism . Error and violation of likelihood or fact which would damn a work of Balzac's or of Thackeray's cannot even lower or lessen the rank ...
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... beauty of this " mighty line " has been dearly purchased by the bitter occasion which evoked it . Yet it cannot but be with delight that we receive so great a gift as this from the chief poet of an age , and of an age C so full of light ...
... beauty of this " mighty line " has been dearly purchased by the bitter occasion which evoked it . Yet it cannot but be with delight that we receive so great a gift as this from the chief poet of an age , and of an age C so full of light ...
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... beauty , Onward , beneath the sun , following its course , So thou , O ship of France ! " " de- In the notes to his essay on " Democratic Vistas " Whitman for one expresses his recognition of Hugo living and Byron dead as serving so ...
... beauty , Onward , beneath the sun , following its course , So thou , O ship of France ! " " de- In the notes to his essay on " Democratic Vistas " Whitman for one expresses his recognition of Hugo living and Byron dead as serving so ...
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... beauty , its indefinable attraction lying deeper than all reason can sound or all analysis resolve . Even after Shakespeare's portrait of Mamillius , and the divine cradle - songs of Blake , we are compelled to recognise in the living ...
... beauty , its indefinable attraction lying deeper than all reason can sound or all analysis resolve . Even after Shakespeare's portrait of Mamillius , and the divine cradle - songs of Blake , we are compelled to recognise in the living ...
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... beauty ; something which touches men not too much used to the melting mood with a smiling sense of tears , an inner pang of delight made up of compassion and adoration before that divine weakness . In the next month's verses addressed ...
... beauty ; something which touches men not too much used to the melting mood with a smiling sense of tears , an inner pang of delight made up of compassion and adoration before that divine weakness . In the next month's verses addressed ...
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