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Page 284
... imagination to the help of reason . Epic poetry undertakes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing precepts , and therefore relates some great event in the most affecting manner . History must supply the writer with the ...
... imagination to the help of reason . Epic poetry undertakes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing precepts , and therefore relates some great event in the most affecting manner . History must supply the writer with the ...
Page 289
... 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 ...
Page 463
... Imagination , 379 ; as describer of life and manners , 379 ; as teacher , 379- 80 ; prose style , 380 Aeschylus , Prometheus , 293 Akenside , Mark , on Dyer's The Fleece , 438 ; The Pleasures of the Imagination , 448 ; as lyric poet ...
... Imagination , 379 ; as describer of life and manners , 379 ; as teacher , 379- 80 ; prose style , 380 Aeschylus , Prometheus , 293 Akenside , Mark , on Dyer's The Fleece , 438 ; The Pleasures of the Imagination , 448 ; as lyric poet ...
Contents
JOHNSON ON SHAKESPEARE | 43 |
Note on the Text and Acknowledgment | 58 |
EARLY PERIODICAL CRITICISM | 59 |
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action admiration Aeneid ancient appears attention beauties blank verse censure character comedy common composition considered Cowley criticism death delight dialogue diction dignity diligence drama Dryden easily easy edition effect elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay excellence exhibit expression eyes F. R. Leavis Falstaff fancy faults genius give harmony heaven hexameter Hudibras human Iliad images imagination imitation Johnson judgment kind King knowledge labour language learning lines literary literature lived Lycidas Macbeth Metaphysical poets Milton mind moral nature never numbers observed opinion original Othello Paradise Lost passages passions pastoral perhaps play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise produced reader reason remarks rhyme Samson Samson Agonistes Samuel Johnson says scarcely scenes seems sense sentiments Shakespeare sometimes sound supposed syllables thee things thou thought tion tragedy translation truth versification Virgil virtue Warburton words writer written