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Such images rather obstruct the career of fancy than incite it . Pleasure and terrour are indeed the genuine sources of poetry ; but poetical pleasure must be such as human imagination can at least conceive , and poetical terrour such ...
Such images rather obstruct the career of fancy than incite it . Pleasure and terrour are indeed the genuine sources of poetry ; but poetical pleasure must be such as human imagination can at least conceive , and poetical terrour such ...
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He saw that immateriality supplied no images , and that he could not show angels acting but by instruments of action ; he therefore invested them with form and matter . This , being necessary , was therefore defensible ; and he should ...
He saw that immateriality supplied no images , and that he could not show angels acting but by instruments of action ; he therefore invested them with form and matter . This , being necessary , was therefore defensible ; and he should ...
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a ungraceful ornaments ; they strike , rather than please ; the images are magnified by affectation ; the language is laboured into harshness . The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence . Double , double , toil and ...
a ungraceful ornaments ; they strike , rather than please ; the images are magnified by affectation ; the language is laboured into harshness . The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence . Double , double , toil and ...
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Introduction | 5 |
Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
Milton | 15 |
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Robert Montagu |
| Publisher | Folio Society, 1965 |
| Length | 420 pages |
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