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Poetry , ' he says , ' is the art of uniting pleasure with truth , by calling imagination to the help of reason . ' We do well to keep this definition in our mind while tracing its gradual embodiment and illustration in the Lives that ...
Poetry , ' he says , ' is the art of uniting pleasure with truth , by calling imagination to the help of reason . ' We do well to keep this definition in our mind while tracing its gradual embodiment and illustration in the Lives that ...
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... produced familiarity of language , and the familiar part of language continues long the same : the dialogue of comedy , when it is tran- scribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure .
... produced familiarity of language , and the familiar part of language continues long the same : the dialogue of comedy , when it is tran- scribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure .
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If inexhaustible wit could give perpetual pleasure , no eye would ever leave half - read the work of Butler ; for what poet has ever brought so many remote images so happily together ? It is scarcely possible to peruse a page without ...
If inexhaustible wit could give perpetual pleasure , no eye would ever leave half - read the work of Butler ; for what poet has ever brought so many remote images so happily together ? It is scarcely possible to peruse a page without ...
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