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... sublime genius lies all in the past , before civilization began , we naturally look for it in the past . We long to recover the work of those sublime prehistoric bards and druids who must have existed . But their work is not to be found ...
... sublime genius lies all in the past , before civilization began , we naturally look for it in the past . We long to recover the work of those sublime prehistoric bards and druids who must have existed . But their work is not to be found ...
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... sublime , so , too , may dark- ness and obscurity , consisting in the absence of light . The eighteenth century ' school of night ' felt sublimity not less but sometimes more than did the descriptive poets of day - as Young's Night ...
... sublime , so , too , may dark- ness and obscurity , consisting in the absence of light . The eighteenth century ' school of night ' felt sublimity not less but sometimes more than did the descriptive poets of day - as Young's Night ...
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... sublime ; and we have all along considered the sublime as depending on some modification of pain or terror ; so that , if darkness be in no way painful or terrible it can be no source of the sublime.60 ... The long , carefully reasoned ...
... sublime ; and we have all along considered the sublime as depending on some modification of pain or terror ; so that , if darkness be in no way painful or terrible it can be no source of the sublime.60 ... The long , carefully reasoned ...
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THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM | 42 |
POPE SEEN THROUGH HIS LETTERS | 62 |
THE CONCISENESS OF SWIFT | 84 |
Urheberrecht | |
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