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Page 112
What beauty there is , we must therefore seek in the sentiments and images . It is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions . Passion plucks no berries from ...
What beauty there is , we must therefore seek in the sentiments and images . It is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions . Passion plucks no berries from ...
Page 115
Through these two poems the images are properly selected , and nicely distinguished ; but the colours of the diction seem not sufficiently discriminated . I know not whether the characters are kept sufficiently apart .
Through these two poems the images are properly selected , and nicely distinguished ; but the colours of the diction seem not sufficiently discriminated . I know not whether the characters are kept sufficiently apart .
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This endeavour after the grand and the new , produced t many sentiments either great or bulky , and many images either just or splendid : I am as free as Nature first made man , Ere the base laws of servitude began , When wild in woods ...
This endeavour after the grand and the new , produced t many sentiments either great or bulky , and many images either just or splendid : I am as free as Nature first made man , Ere the base laws of servitude began , When wild in woods ...
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