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What beauty there is , we must therefore seek in the sentiments and images . It is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions . Passion plucks no berries from ...
What beauty there is , we must therefore seek in the sentiments and images . It is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions . Passion plucks no berries from ...
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Known truths , however , may take a different appearance , and be conveyed to the mind by a new train of intermediate images . This Milton has undertaken , and performed with pregnancy and vigour of mind peculiar to himself .
Known truths , however , may take a different appearance , and be conveyed to the mind by a new train of intermediate images . This Milton has undertaken , and performed with pregnancy and vigour of mind peculiar to himself .
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His images of gallantry are not always in the highest degree delicate , Then shall my love this doubt displace , And gain such trust that I may come And banquet sometimes on thy face , But make my constant meals at home .
His images of gallantry are not always in the highest degree delicate , Then shall my love this doubt displace , And gain such trust that I may come And banquet sometimes on thy face , But make my constant meals at home .
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2011 |
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