Collected Works, Volume 1Clarendon P., 1966 - English literature |
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... imagination the immense distance between him and his creatures : yet must we still remember ( says Mr. Mallet ) that the Edda is but a poetical Mythology , in which the real opinions of those times are set off with all the luxuriance 10 ...
... imagination the immense distance between him and his creatures : yet must we still remember ( says Mr. Mallet ) that the Edda is but a poetical Mythology , in which the real opinions of those times are set off with all the luxuriance 10 ...
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... imagination of his reader . Not that , like Ovid , he should be minute in description ; which , instead of impressing our imagination with a grand whole , divides our idea into several littlenesses . We only think the bold yet distinct ...
... imagination of his reader . Not that , like Ovid , he should be minute in description ; which , instead of impressing our imagination with a grand whole , divides our idea into several littlenesses . We only think the bold yet distinct ...
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... imagination are equivalent to sensation , and even hinder its effects ; though otherwise the impression in itself be ... imagination in a waking person is a policed republic , where the voice of the magistrate appeases confusion , and ...
... imagination are equivalent to sensation , and even hinder its effects ; though otherwise the impression in itself be ... imagination in a waking person is a policed republic , where the voice of the magistrate appeases confusion , and ...
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REVIEWS | 5 |
The History of Two Persons of Quality | 16 |
A Treatise upon Dropsies | 23 |
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