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In his poem on the death of Hervey , there is much praise , but little passion , a very just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action ...
In his poem on the death of Hervey , there is much praise , but little passion , a very just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action ...
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Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind . He sent his faculties out upon discovery , into worlds where only imagination can travel , and delighted to form new modes ...
Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind . He sent his faculties out upon discovery , into worlds where only imagination can travel , and delighted to form new modes ...
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A tendency of the same kind every mind must feel at the perusal of Dryden's pre- faces and Rymer's discourses . With Dryden we are wandering in quest of Truth ; whom we find , if we find her at all , dressed in the graces of elegance ...
A tendency of the same kind every mind must feel at the perusal of Dryden's pre- faces and Rymer's discourses . With Dryden we are wandering in quest of Truth ; whom we find , if we find her at all , dressed in the graces of elegance ...
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