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... passions by which human nature is impelled . In proportion as the author is confined to subjects that fall under his actual observation , the manners and usages of real life are interwoven with , and become the principal of his theme ...
... passions by which human nature is impelled . In proportion as the author is confined to subjects that fall under his actual observation , the manners and usages of real life are interwoven with , and become the principal of his theme ...
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... passions of men , while their divinities speak in the tempest or hover round the field of carnage . Images of rugged grandeur and awe first fill the mind , long before it awakens to appreciate whatever is calm lovely and unexciting ...
... passions of men , while their divinities speak in the tempest or hover round the field of carnage . Images of rugged grandeur and awe first fill the mind , long before it awakens to appreciate whatever is calm lovely and unexciting ...
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... passions with an artlessness that is truth itself . The Canterbury Tales contain examples of the wide scope of his genius . From the knight to the miller , from the prioress to the wife of Bath , there is an ample range of character ...
... passions with an artlessness that is truth itself . The Canterbury Tales contain examples of the wide scope of his genius . From the knight to the miller , from the prioress to the wife of Bath , there is an ample range of character ...
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... certain degree that wonderful power of personification , of giving form and shape to the passions , thoughts , and affections , and representing under the guise of fabled beings the vices and deformities of our nature , in which Spenser 26.
... certain degree that wonderful power of personification , of giving form and shape to the passions , thoughts , and affections , and representing under the guise of fabled beings the vices and deformities of our nature , in which Spenser 26.
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... passion , and rise , like temples , at which men of all climes and ages , the sinner and the saint , alike bow down and do homage . Sir Philip Sydney's most popular production is a romance entitled Arcadia ; but his poems , though ...
... passion , and rise , like temples , at which men of all climes and ages , the sinner and the saint , alike bow down and do homage . Sir Philip Sydney's most popular production is a romance entitled Arcadia ; but his poems , though ...
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