Eighteenth-century English Literature: Modern Essays in CriticismJames Lowry Clifford Oxford University Press, 1959 - 351 Seiten |
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... experience . However great the gifts of heaven , wit , without that development , falls short of its perfection : natural wit needs training for its proper expression in art . But such training does not propose to foster an alien power ...
... experience . However great the gifts of heaven , wit , without that development , falls short of its perfection : natural wit needs training for its proper expression in art . But such training does not propose to foster an alien power ...
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... Experience to all who are Poets . . .'54 The expression ( which includes style , harmony , rhythm , etc. ) , then , is not the result of a separate act but exists in the most intimate and necessary relation- ship with the ideas ...
... Experience to all who are Poets . . .'54 The expression ( which includes style , harmony , rhythm , etc. ) , then , is not the result of a separate act but exists in the most intimate and necessary relation- ship with the ideas ...
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... experience , but is no substitute for experience . What we seem to observe is a spirit profoundly troubled , not so visibly by religious doubts as by religious convictions . Johnson does not allow us to see him questioning his Maker ...
... experience , but is no substitute for experience . What we seem to observe is a spirit profoundly troubled , not so visibly by religious doubts as by religious convictions . Johnson does not allow us to see him questioning his Maker ...
Inhalt
THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM | 42 |
POPE SEEN THROUGH HIS LETTERS | 62 |
THE CONCISENESS OF SWIFT | 84 |
Urheberrecht | |
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