North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 8Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1965 Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Page 144
... poetical conceptions are merely conjectural , who undertake to describe what they never saw , to put words in order , rather than things . They never go to particulars , but stick to generals , and are safe , ' - remem- bering Mr ...
... poetical conceptions are merely conjectural , who undertake to describe what they never saw , to put words in order , rather than things . They never go to particulars , but stick to generals , and are safe , ' - remem- bering Mr ...
Page 291
... poetical mind will work its character into it . Shakspeare is a poet every where and in all companies . Whether he argues or moralizes , is witty or sentimental , there is a poetical atmosphere over him , and all that belongs to him ...
... poetical mind will work its character into it . Shakspeare is a poet every where and in all companies . Whether he argues or moralizes , is witty or sentimental , there is a poetical atmosphere over him , and all that belongs to him ...
Page 299
... poetical powers , take upon them to despise plain prose . One thing more , which we urge somewhat doubtingly as a fault , and which at any rate grows out of an excellence , -is an over accumulation in describing . We are filled almost ...
... poetical powers , take upon them to despise plain prose . One thing more , which we urge somewhat doubtingly as a fault , and which at any rate grows out of an excellence , -is an over accumulation in describing . We are filled almost ...
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