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... imagination , than the obvious introduction of Cam and Ifis , as feats of the Muses . THEOCRITUS , Idyll . i . 66. + POPE , Paft . ii . 24. MILTON . A SHEP- B 4 A SHEPHERD in Theocritus wishes with much tenderness and elegance AND ...
... imagination , than the obvious introduction of Cam and Ifis , as feats of the Muses . THEOCRITUS , Idyll . i . 66. + POPE , Paft . ii . 24. MILTON . A SHEP- B 4 A SHEPHERD in Theocritus wishes with much tenderness and elegance AND ...
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... imagination by lively pictures ; the selection of which chiefly constitutes true poetry . An hiftorian or profe- writer might fay , " Then fhall the most " diftant nations croud into my port : " a poet fets before your eyes " the fhips ...
... imagination by lively pictures ; the selection of which chiefly constitutes true poetry . An hiftorian or profe- writer might fay , " Then fhall the most " diftant nations croud into my port : " a poet fets before your eyes " the fhips ...
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... imagination , which afterwards was to produce the Paradise Loft . This ode , which , by the way , is not suffi- ciently read nor admired , is also of the defcriptive kind ; but the objects of its de- scription are great , and striking ...
... imagination , which afterwards was to produce the Paradise Loft . This ode , which , by the way , is not suffi- ciently read nor admired , is also of the defcriptive kind ; but the objects of its de- scription are great , and striking ...
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... imagination ; for he fays that the admiral not only heard the groans of the sick that echoed from ship to fhip , but that he also pensively stood , and liftened at midnight to the dashing of the waters , occafioned by throwing the dead ...
... imagination ; for he fays that the admiral not only heard the groans of the sick that echoed from ship to fhip , but that he also pensively stood , and liftened at midnight to the dashing of the waters , occafioned by throwing the dead ...
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... . Ke . unitting Philoc- tetes The subject and scene of this tragedy , fo romantic and uncommon , are highly pleafing to the imagination . See par- ticularly tetes the chorus takes a natural occafion , at verse 72 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... . Ke . unitting Philoc- tetes The subject and scene of this tragedy , fo romantic and uncommon , are highly pleafing to the imagination . See par- ticularly tetes the chorus takes a natural occafion , at verse 72 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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