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... imagination . Into a mind already occupied by such fancies , another not more reasonable might easily find its way . He that could fear lest his genius had fallen upon too old a world , or too chill a climate , might consistently ...
... imagination . Into a mind already occupied by such fancies , another not more reasonable might easily find its way . He that could fear lest his genius had fallen upon too old a world , or too chill a climate , might consistently ...
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... imagination can travel , and delighted to form new modes of existence , and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings , to trace the counsels of hell , or accompany the choirs of heaven . But he could not be always in other worlds ...
... imagination can travel , and delighted to form new modes of existence , and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings , to trace the counsels of hell , or accompany the choirs of heaven . But he could not be always in other worlds ...
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... imagination can at least conceive , and poetical terrour such as human strength and fortitude may combat . The good and evil of Eternity are too ponderous for the wings of wit ; the mind sinks under them in passive helplessness ...
... imagination can at least conceive , and poetical terrour such as human strength and fortitude may combat . The good and evil of Eternity are too ponderous for the wings of wit ; the mind sinks under them in passive helplessness ...
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Milton | 15 |
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