Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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... mind not yet called forth to action can display . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend the qualities of his companion ; but when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , and diverts his sorrow by imagining how ...
... mind not yet called forth to action can display . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend the qualities of his companion ; but when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , and diverts his sorrow by imagining how ...
Page 123
... mind . He sent his faculties out upon discovery , into worlds where only imagination can travel , and delighted to form new modes of existence , and fur- nish sentiment and action to superior beings , to trace the counsels of hell , or ...
... mind . He sent his faculties out upon discovery , into worlds where only imagination can travel , and delighted to form new modes of existence , and fur- nish sentiment and action to superior beings , to trace the counsels of hell , or ...
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... mind by a new train of intermediate images . This Milton has undertaken , and performed with pregnancy and vigour of mind peculiar to himself . Whoever considers the few radical positions which the Scriptures afforded him , will wonder ...
... mind by a new train of intermediate images . This Milton has undertaken , and performed with pregnancy and vigour of mind peculiar to himself . Whoever considers the few radical positions which the Scriptures afforded him , will wonder ...
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