The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, 1787 |
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... imagination and elegance of language have defervedly fet him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character ...
... imagination and elegance of language have defervedly fet him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character ...
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... imagination over - awed and con- trolled . We have been accustomed to acquiefce in the nakedness and fimplicity of the authentic narrative , and to repofe on its veracity with fuch humble confi- dence , as fuppreffes curiofity . We go ...
... imagination over - awed and con- trolled . We have been accustomed to acquiefce in the nakedness and fimplicity of the authentic narrative , and to repofe on its veracity with fuch humble confi- dence , as fuppreffes curiofity . We go ...
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... imagination to place us in the state of them whofe ftory is related , and by confequence their joys and griefs are not eafily adopted , nor can the at → tention be often interested in any thing that befalls them . To the fubject thus ...
... imagination to place us in the state of them whofe ftory is related , and by confequence their joys and griefs are not eafily adopted , nor can the at → tention be often interested in any thing that befalls them . To the fubject thus ...
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... imagination . Sapiens dominabitur aftris . The author that thinks himself weather - bound will find , with a lit- tle help from hellebore , that he is only idle or exhaust- ed . But while this notion has poffeffion of the head , it ...
... imagination . Sapiens dominabitur aftris . The author that thinks himself weather - bound will find , with a lit- tle help from hellebore , that he is only idle or exhaust- ed . But while this notion has poffeffion of the head , it ...
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... imagination . Into a mind already occupied by fuch fancies , another not more reafonable might cafily find its way . He that could fear left his genius had fallen upon too old a world , or too chill a climate , might confiftently ...
... imagination . Into a mind already occupied by fuch fancies , another not more reafonable might cafily find its way . He that could fear left his genius had fallen upon too old a world , or too chill a climate , might confiftently ...
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