Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Volume 1 |
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... writers who flourish at all times in the inferior walks of literature . I knew a very old gentle- man of considerable talent who used to say , that in his youth it was a distinction to write well ; but that now even the essays in the ...
... writers who flourish at all times in the inferior walks of literature . I knew a very old gentle- man of considerable talent who used to say , that in his youth it was a distinction to write well ; but that now even the essays in the ...
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... writers have generalized and classed the various sources whence the plea- sures of the imagination , and the ... writer✓ affects and interests his readers . The same phi- losophers have endeavoured to explain why the excitement ...
... writers have generalized and classed the various sources whence the plea- sures of the imagination , and the ... writer✓ affects and interests his readers . The same phi- losophers have endeavoured to explain why the excitement ...
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... writers may in general be traced to one or other of them : 1st , The marvellous ; 2d , the new ; 3d , the sublime ; 4th , the pathetic ; 5th , the ridi- culous . 1. Our taste for the marvellous is chiefly to be I referred to that ...
... writers may in general be traced to one or other of them : 1st , The marvellous ; 2d , the new ; 3d , the sublime ; 4th , the pathetic ; 5th , the ridi- culous . 1. Our taste for the marvellous is chiefly to be I referred to that ...
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... writer or speaker , when we remember how strong and liow gene- ral a passion curiosity is . The word itself has supplied a name to a very voluminous class of literary productions , the professed object of which is to gratify their ...
... writer or speaker , when we remember how strong and liow gene- ral a passion curiosity is . The word itself has supplied a name to a very voluminous class of literary productions , the professed object of which is to gratify their ...
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... writers will so much expose themselves as in attempting it . Yet some authors of very secondary talents have acquired much temporary and transient fame , by an air of novelty . Among these , I cannot but rank the author of Tristram ...
... writers will so much expose themselves as in attempting it . Yet some authors of very secondary talents have acquired much temporary and transient fame , by an air of novelty . Among these , I cannot but rank the author of Tristram ...
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