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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 ...
Page 127
... 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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... mind of the greatest powers may be indebted without disgrace . Cervantes shews a man , who having , by the incessant perusal of incredible tales , subjected his understanding to his imagination , and familiarized his mind by pertin ...
... mind of the greatest powers may be indebted without disgrace . Cervantes shews a man , who having , by the incessant perusal of incredible tales , subjected his understanding to his imagination , and familiarized his mind by pertin ...
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