The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and ThingsWilliam Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt George Bell & sons, 1890 - 538 Seiten |
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... beauty , when he should be seeking for truth ; and aims at pleasure , which he can only communicate by increasing the sense of power in the reader . The poet spreads the colours of fancy , the illusions of his own mind , round every ...
... beauty , when he should be seeking for truth ; and aims at pleasure , which he can only communicate by increasing the sense of power in the reader . The poet spreads the colours of fancy , the illusions of his own mind , round every ...
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... beauty gives birth to kindred beauty , grandeur leads the mind on to greater grandeur . But in treating a common subject , the link is truth , force of illustration , weight of argument , not a graceful harmony in the imme- diate ideas ...
... beauty gives birth to kindred beauty , grandeur leads the mind on to greater grandeur . But in treating a common subject , the link is truth , force of illustration , weight of argument , not a graceful harmony in the imme- diate ideas ...
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... beauty- not pleasure , but power . He has no choice , no selection of subject to flatter the reader's idle taste , or assist his own fancy : he must take what comes , and make the most of it . He works the most striking effects out of ...
... beauty- not pleasure , but power . He has no choice , no selection of subject to flatter the reader's idle taste , or assist his own fancy : he must take what comes , and make the most of it . He works the most striking effects out of ...
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... beauty or grandeur is the principle of composition : in prose , the professed object is to impart conviction , and nothing can be admitted by way of ornament or relief , that does not add new force or clearness to the original ...
... beauty or grandeur is the principle of composition : in prose , the professed object is to impart conviction , and nothing can be admitted by way of ornament or relief , that does not add new force or clearness to the original ...
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... beauty of his sentiments and the brilliancy of his paradoxes . We have the subtleties of the head , instead of the workings of the heart , and possible justifications instead of the actual motives of conduct . This all seems to proceed ...
... beauty of his sentiments and the brilliancy of his paradoxes . We have the subtleties of the head , instead of the workings of the heart , and possible justifications instead of the actual motives of conduct . This all seems to proceed ...
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