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Page 1
... imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or am- bition of eloquence , has produced a funeral ora- tion rather than a history : he has given the character ...
... imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or am- bition of eloquence , has produced a funeral ora- tion rather than a history : he has given the character ...
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... imagination is not always gratified , at least the powers of re- flection and comparison are employed ; and , in the mass of materials which ingenious absurdity has thrown together , genuine wit and useful knowledge may be sometimes ...
... imagination is not always gratified , at least the powers of re- flection and comparison are employed ; and , in the mass of materials which ingenious absurdity has thrown together , genuine wit and useful knowledge may be sometimes ...
Page 12
... imagining how his crown of bays , if he had it , tated by a mind at leisure , and some as they would crackle in the fire . It is the odd fate of were called forth by different occasions , with this thought to be the worse for being true ...
... imagining how his crown of bays , if he had it , tated by a mind at leisure , and some as they would crackle in the fire . It is the odd fate of were called forth by different occasions , with this thought to be the worse for being true ...
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... imagination over- awed and controlled . We have been accus- tomed to acquiesce in the nakedness and sim- plicity of the authentic narrative , and to repose on its veracity with such humble confidence as suppresses curiosity . We go with ...
... imagination over- awed and controlled . We have been accus- tomed to acquiesce in the nakedness and sim- plicity of the authentic narrative , and to repose on its veracity with such humble confidence as suppresses curiosity . We go with ...
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... imagination . Sapiens domin- abitur astris . The author that thinks himself weather - bound will find , with a little help from hellebore , that he is only idle or exhausted . But while this notion has possession of the head , it ...
... imagination . Sapiens domin- abitur astris . The author that thinks himself weather - bound will find , with a little help from hellebore , that he is only idle or exhausted . But while this notion has possession of the head , it ...
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Addison Æneid afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censure character Charles Dryden composition considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence Dorset Dryden Duke Dunciad Earl elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay excellence faults favour friends genius Georgics honour Hudibras Iliad images imagination imitation kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Halifax ment mentioned Milton mind nature never night Night Thoughts nihil numbers observed occasion once opinion panegyric Paradise Lost passage passion performance perhaps Pindar play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise published Queen racter reader reason received remarks reputation rhyme satire Savage says seems sent sentiments sometimes supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thing thought tion told tragedy translation verses Virgil virtue Waller whigs write written wrote Young