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... imagination in the highest degree fervid and active , to which materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity . The heat of Milton's mind might be said to sublimate his learning , to throw off into his work the ...
... imagination in the highest degree fervid and active , to which materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity . The heat of Milton's mind might be said to sublimate his learning , to throw off into his work the ...
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... imagination can travel , and de- lighted to form new modes of existence , and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings , to trace the counsels of hell , or accompany the choirs of heaven . But he could not be always in other ...
... imagination can travel , and de- lighted to form new modes of existence , and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings , to trace the counsels of hell , or accompany the choirs of heaven . But he could not be always in other ...
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... imaginations ; and seldom ap- peared to be melancholy but when some sudden mis- fortune had just fallen upon him , and even ... imagination ; and , as Sir Rob- ert Walpole had before given him reason to believe that he never intended the ...
... imaginations ; and seldom ap- peared to be melancholy but when some sudden mis- fortune had just fallen upon him , and even ... imagination ; and , as Sir Rob- ert Walpole had before given him reason to believe that he never intended the ...
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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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