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... produced in a civilised age , We cannot understand why those who be - intellectual operations , of a change by which lieve in that most orthodox article of literary faith , that the earliest poets are generally the best , should wonder ...
... produced in a civilised age , We cannot understand why those who be - intellectual operations , of a change by which lieve in that most orthodox article of literary faith , that the earliest poets are generally the best , should wonder ...
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... produce an illusion on the imagination , the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours . Thus ... produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstacy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodist ...
... produce an illusion on the imagination , the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours . Thus ... produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstacy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodist ...
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... produced , not so much by what it expresses , as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas which it directly conveys , as by other ideas which are connected with them . He electrifies the mind through conductors . The most ...
... produced , not so much by what it expresses , as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas which it directly conveys , as by other ideas which are connected with them . He electrifies the mind through conductors . The most ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. pleasant as that which is produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter ... produce an illusion . Euripides attempted to carry the reform further . But it was a task far beyond his powers ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. pleasant as that which is produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter ... produce an illusion . Euripides attempted to carry the reform further . But it was a task far beyond his powers ...
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... produce for a single moment a deception on the imagination . Of all the poets who have introduced into their works ... produced , in a few centuries , the in- numerable 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 works ... produced , in a few centuries , the in- numerable crowd of Gods and Goddesses . In like manner the ancient Persians ...
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