The Lives of the English Poets; and a criticism on their works, Volume 11790 |
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... imagination and elegance of language have deservedly fet him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friend- fhip , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character ...
... imagination and elegance of language have deservedly fet him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friend- fhip , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character ...
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... imagination is not always gratified , at leaft the powers of reflexion and comparison are employed ; and in the mafs of materials which ingenious abfurdity has thrown toge- ther , genuine wit and ufeful knowledge may be fometimes found ...
... imagination is not always gratified , at leaft the powers of reflexion and comparison are employed ; and in the mafs of materials which ingenious abfurdity has thrown toge- ther , genuine wit and ufeful knowledge may be fometimes found ...
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... he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , and di- verts his forrow by imagining how his crown of bays , if he had it , would crackle in the fire . 4 fire . It is the odd fate of this thought 58 COWL E Y.
... he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , and di- verts his forrow by imagining how his crown of bays , if he had it , would crackle in the fire . 4 fire . It is the odd fate of this thought 58 COWL E Y.
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... in the choice of the fubject , and partly in the per- formance of the work . Sacred History has been always read with fubmiffive reverence , and an imagination 1 over - awed and controlled . We have been over- 78 COWL E Y.
... in the choice of the fubject , and partly in the per- formance of the work . Sacred History has been always read with fubmiffive reverence , and an imagination 1 over - awed and controlled . We have been over- 78 COWL E Y.
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... imagination to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by confe- quence their joys and griefs are not eafily adopted , nor can the attention be often in- terested in any thing that befalls them . To the fubject thus ...
... imagination to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by confe- quence their joys and griefs are not eafily adopted , nor can the attention be often in- terested in any thing that befalls them . To the fubject thus ...
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