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THE PARTS.
THE ATTRACTIVE OR MELODRAMATIC PERIOD
ОглавлениеLove took up the harp of life and smote on all the chords with might,
Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
Tennyson.
The power to detach, and to magnify by detaching, is the essence of rhetoric in the hands of the orator and the poet. This rhetoric, or power to fix the momentary eminence of an object, so remarkable in Burke, in Byron, in Carlyle – depends upon the depth of the artist's insight of that object he contemplates.
Emerson.
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