Literary Hours: Or, Sketches Critical and Narrative, Volume 1Garland Pub., 1970 - English literature |
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Page 54
... tion , intent only on moulding the crimes and passions which surround it , to instruments of pecuniary gain , or desolating ambition . Many of this class there are , whose principal object being the accumulation of property , preserve ...
... tion , intent only on moulding the crimes and passions which surround it , to instruments of pecuniary gain , or desolating ambition . Many of this class there are , whose principal object being the accumulation of property , preserve ...
Page 55
... tion , and of cherishing a morbid sensibility ; but I shall confine myself , in this sketch , to three , and these shall be taken from the class of poets . Poetry , to attain its highest point of per- fection , demands an invention ...
... tion , and of cherishing a morbid sensibility ; but I shall confine myself , in this sketch , to three , and these shall be taken from the class of poets . Poetry , to attain its highest point of per- fection , demands an invention ...
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... tion of this kind , he would greatly have enhanced its value and the variety of its attraction . As it is , the only piece in the purely descriptive line we can recollect throughout the whole poem is the picture of paradise in the ...
... tion of this kind , he would greatly have enhanced its value and the variety of its attraction . As it is , the only piece in the purely descriptive line we can recollect throughout the whole poem is the picture of paradise in the ...
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