The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - Great Britain |
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Page 148
... poetry or painting is such as we could have no desire of seeing in the reality , then I may be sure that its power in poetry or painting is owing to the power of imitation , and to no cause operating in the thing itself . So it is with ...
... poetry or painting is such as we could have no desire of seeing in the reality , then I may be sure that its power in poetry or painting is owing to the power of imitation , and to no cause operating in the thing itself . So it is with ...
Page 163
... Poetry , that seem to contradict this opinion ; for which reason I shall take a little more pains in clearing it up . The verses are , Segnius irritant animos demissa per aures , Quam quæ sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus . On this the ...
... Poetry , that seem to contradict this opinion ; for which reason I shall take a little more pains in clearing it up . The verses are , Segnius irritant animos demissa per aures , Quam quæ sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus . On this the ...
Page 164
... poetry , with all its obscu- rity , has a more general , as well as a more pow- erful dominion over the passions , than the other art . And I think there are reasons in nature , why the obscure idea , when properly conveyed , should be ...
... poetry , with all its obscu- rity , has a more general , as well as a more pow- erful dominion over the passions , than the other art . And I think there are reasons in nature , why the obscure idea , when properly conveyed , should be ...
Page 165
... poetry are always of this obscure kind ; though in gene- ral the effects of poetry are by no means to be attributed to the images it raises ; which point we shall examine more at large hereafter * . But paint- ing , when we have allowed ...
... poetry are always of this obscure kind ; though in gene- ral the effects of poetry are by no means to be attributed to the images it raises ; which point we shall examine more at large hereafter * . But paint- ing , when we have allowed ...
Page 167
... poetry is very happy . Its apparitions , its chimeras , its harpies , its allegorical figures , are grand and affecting ; and though Virgil's Fame , and Homer's Discord , are obscure , they are magnificent figures . These figures in ...
... poetry is very happy . Its apparitions , its chimeras , its harpies , its allegorical figures , are grand and affecting ; and though Virgil's Fame , and Homer's Discord , are obscure , they are magnificent figures . These figures in ...
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