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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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In those which are intended to exalt the human faculties , Reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging , not of things revealed , but of the reality of revelation . In the verses for Reason is a passage which Bentley ...
In those which are intended to exalt the human faculties , Reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging , not of things revealed , but of the reality of revelation . In the verses for Reason is a passage which Bentley ...
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And if they proceeded upon a foundation of truer reason to please the Athenians than Shakespeare and Fletcher to please the English , it only shews that the Athenians were a more judicious people ; but the poet's business is certainly ...
And if they proceeded upon a foundation of truer reason to please the Athenians than Shakespeare and Fletcher to please the English , it only shews that the Athenians were a more judicious people ; but the poet's business is certainly ...
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