Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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Page xiv
... imagination to the aid of reason ' ; and , if the definition be used with pliability , it may be made to cover a fairly wide field . But , when he set about to illustrate his idea of pleasure ' and ' truth , ' of ' imagination ' and ...
... imagination to the aid of reason ' ; and , if the definition be used with pliability , it may be made to cover a fairly wide field . But , when he set about to illustrate his idea of pleasure ' and ' truth , ' of ' imagination ' and ...
Page 127
... imagination to unrestrained indul- gence , and his conceptions therefore were extensive . The characteristick quality of his poem is sublimity . He sometimes descends to the elegant , but his element is the great . He can occasionally ...
... imagination to unrestrained indul- gence , and his conceptions therefore were extensive . The characteristick quality of his poem is sublimity . He sometimes descends to the elegant , but his element is the great . He can occasionally ...
Page 166
... imagination had been more fruitful . It is ridiculous to oppose judgement to imagination ; for it does not appear that men have necessarily less of one as they have more of the other . We must allow of Roscommon , what Fenton has not ...
... imagination had been more fruitful . It is ridiculous to oppose judgement to imagination ; for it does not appear that men have necessarily less of one as they have more of the other . We must allow of Roscommon , what Fenton has not ...
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