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... he was not prevented by the high wall of taste from seeing the beautiful and the rare outside . The great individual enthusiasms of the eighteenth century were for the supreme masters of poetry who cannot be bounded by taste .
... he was not prevented by the high wall of taste from seeing the beautiful and the rare outside . The great individual enthusiasms of the eighteenth century were for the supreme masters of poetry who cannot be bounded by taste .
Page 36
There was as much modesty as complacency in such a renunciation of the heights ; the writer of taste was timid , unsure of himself , sceptical of his own powers . He was kept so by the prevalence of criticism and the fear of ridicule .
There was as much modesty as complacency in such a renunciation of the heights ; the writer of taste was timid , unsure of himself , sceptical of his own powers . He was kept so by the prevalence of criticism and the fear of ridicule .
Page 49
But when he was called upon for theory , he reverted to the canons of taste and reason . His Drury Lane Address , worked at so conscientiously , is remarkable chiefly for its utter sincere lack of originality in reflecting neoclassic ...
But when he was called upon for theory , he reverted to the canons of taste and reason . His Drury Lane Address , worked at so conscientiously , is remarkable chiefly for its utter sincere lack of originality in reflecting neoclassic ...
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| Title | Byron: Romantic Paradox |
| Author | William Jonathan Calvert |
| Edition | reprint, reissue |
| Publisher | Russell & Russell, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 235 pages |
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