The Hundred Best English EssaysFrederick Edwin Smith Earl of Birkenhead Cassell, 1929 - 921 Seiten |
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... Poetry , when it is really such , is truth ; and fiction also , if it is good for anything , is truth : but they are different truths . The truth of poetry is to paint the human soul truly : the truth of fiction is to give a true ...
... Poetry , when it is really such , is truth ; and fiction also , if it is good for anything , is truth : but they are different truths . The truth of poetry is to paint the human soul truly : the truth of fiction is to give a true ...
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... poetry be all the better ; but if the human emotion be not painted with scrupulous truth , the poetry is bad poetry , i.e. is not poetry at all , but a failure . Poetry and eloquence are both alike the expression or utterance of feeling ...
... poetry be all the better ; but if the human emotion be not painted with scrupulous truth , the poetry is bad poetry , i.e. is not poetry at all , but a failure . Poetry and eloquence are both alike the expression or utterance of feeling ...
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... poet , so far as a life passed in writing un- questionable poetry may be considered to confer that title . But ought it to do so ? Yes , perhaps , in a collection of " British Poets . " But " poet " is the name also of a variety of man ...
... poet , so far as a life passed in writing un- questionable poetry may be considered to confer that title . But ought it to do so ? Yes , perhaps , in a collection of " British Poets . " But " poet " is the name also of a variety of man ...
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Decay of the Yeomanry | 1 |
FRANCIS BACON BARON VERULAM VISCOUNT ST ALBANS 15611626 | 17 |
BEN JONSON 15731637 | 23 |
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