Prose of the Romantic PeriodCarl Woodring Houghton Mifflin, 1961 - 600 pages Prose excerpts from the works of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walter Savage Landor, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Thomas de Quincey, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and others. |
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Page 68
... interest excited by some other kinds of poetry is less vivid , and less worthy of the nobler powers of the mind , than to offer reasons for presuming , that , if the object which I have proposed to myself were adequately attained , a ...
... interest excited by some other kinds of poetry is less vivid , and less worthy of the nobler powers of the mind , than to offer reasons for presuming , that , if the object which I have proposed to myself were adequately attained , a ...
Page 124
... interest on the plot . The interest in the plot is always in fact on account of the characters , not vice versa , as in almost all other writers ; the plot is a mere canvass and no more . Hence arises the true justification of the same ...
... interest on the plot . The interest in the plot is always in fact on account of the characters , not vice versa , as in almost all other writers ; the plot is a mere canvass and no more . Hence arises the true justification of the same ...
Page 247
... interests left . We see a stage libertine playing his loose pranks of two hours ' duration , and of no after ... interest in what is going on so hearty and substantial , that we can- not afford our moral judgment , in its deepest ...
... interests left . We see a stage libertine playing his loose pranks of two hours ' duration , and of no after ... interest in what is going on so hearty and substantial , that we can- not afford our moral judgment , in its deepest ...
Contents
JEREMY BENTHAM | 4 |
THOMAS PAINE | 11 |
THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS | 20 |
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