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Page 123
Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind . He sent his faculties out upon discovery , into worlds where only imagination can travel , and delighted to form new modes ...
Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind . He sent his faculties out upon discovery , into worlds where only imagination can travel , and delighted to form new modes ...
Page 127
Known truths , however , may take a different appear- ance , 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 appear- ance , 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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The poem of Hudibras is not wholly English ; the original idea is to be found in the History of Don Quixote ; a book to which a mind of the greatest powers may be indebted without disgrace . Cervantes shews a man , who having , by the ...
The poem of Hudibras is not wholly English ; the original idea is to be found in the History of Don Quixote ; a book to which a mind of the greatest powers may be indebted without disgrace . Cervantes shews a man , who having , by the ...
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