Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical MeritR.H. Evans, 1810 - 352 pages |
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... mind 193 Mistaken fair , lay Sherlock by Mortals learn your lives to measure My banks they are furnish'd with bees My days have been so wonderous free My dear mistress has a heart 210 151 84 331 131 My love was fickle once and changing ...
... mind 193 Mistaken fair , lay Sherlock by Mortals learn your lives to measure My banks they are furnish'd with bees My days have been so wonderous free My dear mistress has a heart 210 151 84 331 131 My love was fickle once and changing ...
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... mind , which alone can give a firm foun- dation to our deductions . A The original poetry of all nations must have been very much confined to the de- scription of external objects , and the narration of events . This is a necessary ...
... mind , which alone can give a firm foun- dation to our deductions . A The original poetry of all nations must have been very much confined to the de- scription of external objects , and the narration of events . This is a necessary ...
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... mind . He must burn with desire , and freeze with disdain ; rage with the ocean , and sigh with the zephyr ; hope must enlighten him with its rays , and de- spair darken him with its gloom . The effects which the passions produce upon ...
... mind . He must burn with desire , and freeze with disdain ; rage with the ocean , and sigh with the zephyr ; hope must enlighten him with its rays , and de- spair darken him with its gloom . The effects which the passions produce upon ...
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... mind is the imagination - it peoples the world with new beings , it embodies abstract ideas , it suggests unexpected resemblances , it creates first , and then presides over its creation with absolute sway . Not less accurately and ...
... mind is the imagination - it peoples the world with new beings , it embodies abstract ideas , it suggests unexpected resemblances , it creates first , and then presides over its creation with absolute sway . Not less accurately and ...
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... by a languid , sensual indolence , averse even in its pleasures to any thing that requires attention of the mind . The ear , instead of being an avenue to the heart , expects to be gratified merely as an organ IN GENERAL .
... by a languid , sensual indolence , averse even in its pleasures to any thing that requires attention of the mind . The ear , instead of being an avenue to the heart , expects to be gratified merely as an organ IN GENERAL .
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