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Page xii
... imagination . The fact is that poetry is capable of becoming too much a thing of fashion -to its own undoing . When ... imagination to the aid of reason ' ; and , if the definition be used with pliability , it may be made to cover a ...
... imagination . The fact is that poetry is capable of becoming too much a thing of fashion -to its own undoing . When ... imagination to the aid of reason ' ; and , if the definition be used with pliability , it may be made to cover a ...
Page 160
... imagination had been more fruitful . It is ridiculous to oppose judgement to imagination ; for it does not appear that men have necessarily less of one as they have more of the other . We must allow of Roscommon , what Fenton has not ...
... imagination had been more fruitful . It is ridiculous to oppose judgement to imagination ; for it does not appear that men have necessarily less of one as they have more of the other . We must allow of Roscommon , what Fenton has not ...
Page 434
... imagination , or invincible prepossession ; that such an audience is liable to receive the impressions which the ... imaginations of others . But that when an author writes a tragedy , who knows he has neither genius nor judgement , he ...
... imagination , or invincible prepossession ; that such an audience is liable to receive the impressions which the ... imaginations of others . But that when an author writes a tragedy , who knows he has neither genius nor judgement , he ...
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