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... images it can supply are long ago exhausted , and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the ... image of tenderness can be excited by these lines ? - We drove a field , and both together heard What time the ...
... images it can supply are long ago exhausted , and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the ... image of tenderness can be excited by these lines ? - We drove a field , and both together heard What time the ...
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... images rather obstruct the career of fancy than incite it . Pleasure and terror are indeed the genuine sources of poetry ; but poetical pleasure must be such as hu- man imagination can at least conceive , and poetical terrors such as ...
... images rather obstruct the career of fancy than incite it . Pleasure and terror are indeed the genuine sources of poetry ; but poetical pleasure must be such as hu- man imagination can at least conceive , and poetical terrors such as ...
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... images of matter ; but if they could have escaped without their armour , they might have escaped from it , and left only the empty cover to be battered . Uriel , when he rides on a sunbeam , is material ; Satan is material when he is ...
... images of matter ; but if they could have escaped without their armour , they might have escaped from it , and left only the empty cover to be battered . Uriel , when he rides on a sunbeam , is material ; Satan is material when he is ...
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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