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Page 37
... imagination , which afterwards was to pro- duce the Paradife Loft . This ode , which , by the way , is not fufficiently read nor ad- mired , is alfo of the defcriptive kind ; but the objects of its description are great , and ftriking ...
... imagination , which afterwards was to pro- duce the Paradife Loft . This ode , which , by the way , is not fufficiently read nor ad- mired , is alfo of the defcriptive kind ; but the objects of its description are great , and ftriking ...
Page 103
... imagination , it will break out in fanciful and luxuriant descrip- tions , the colouring . of which will perhaps be too rich and glowing . If his chief force lies in the understanding rather than in the imagination , it will foon appear ...
... imagination , it will break out in fanciful and luxuriant descrip- tions , the colouring . of which will perhaps be too rich and glowing . If his chief force lies in the understanding rather than in the imagination , it will foon appear ...
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... imagination than in all his other works Taken together . It should however be re- membered , that he was not the FIRST for- mer and creator of those beautiful ma- chines , the fylphs ; on which his claim to imagination is chiefly ...
... imagination than in all his other works Taken together . It should however be re- membered , that he was not the FIRST for- mer and creator of those beautiful ma- chines , the fylphs ; on which his claim to imagination is chiefly ...
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