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Page 69
This dependance of the soul upon the seasons , those temporary and periodical
ebbs and flows of intellect , may , I suppose , justly be derided as the funes of
vain imagination . ' Sapiens dominabitur astris . The author that thinks himself ...
This dependance of the soul upon the seasons , those temporary and periodical
ebbs and flows of intellect , may , I suppose , justly be derided as the funes of
vain imagination . ' Sapiens dominabitur astris . The author that thinks himself ...
Page 84
To display the motives and actions of beings thus superior , so far as human
reason can examine them , or human imagination represent them , is the task
which this mighty poet has undertaken and performed . ' In the examination of
epick ...
To display the motives and actions of beings thus superior , so far as human
reason can examine them , or human imagination represent them , is the task
which this mighty poet has undertaken and performed . ' In the examination of
epick ...
Page 86
He had accustomed his imagination to ... He sent his faculties out upon discovery
, into worlds where only imagination can travel , and delighted to form new
modes of existence , and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings , to
trace the ...
He had accustomed his imagination to ... He sent his faculties out upon discovery
, into worlds where only imagination can travel , and delighted to form new
modes of existence , and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings , to
trace the ...
Page 110
The observation , that his imagination would probably have been more fruitful
and sprighıtly if his judgement had been less severe , may be answered , by a
remarker somewhat inclined to cavil , by a contrary supposition , that his
judgement ...
The observation , that his imagination would probably have been more fruitful
and sprighıtly if his judgement had been less severe , may be answered , by a
remarker somewhat inclined to cavil , by a contrary supposition , that his
judgement ...
Page 279
The story is domesrick , and therefore easily received by the imagination , and
assimilated to common life ; the diction is exquisitely harmonious , and soft or
spritely as occasion requires . The character of Lothario seems to have been ...
The story is domesrick , and therefore easily received by the imagination , and
assimilated to common life ; the diction is exquisitely harmonious , and soft or
spritely as occasion requires . The character of Lothario seems to have been ...
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| Title | Lives Volume 1 of The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | A. Miller, 1800 |
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