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Page 75
... 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 as ...
... 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 as ...
Page 76
... 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 have secured the consistency of his ...
... 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 have secured the consistency of his ...
Page 420
... 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 trouble . He has a kind of strutting dignity , and is tall by ...
... 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 trouble . He has a kind of strutting dignity , and is tall by ...
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