Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... imagination , his elegance , and his melody , with equal alacrity , for Charles the Second . It is not possible to read , without some contempt and indignation , poems of the same author , ascribing the highest degree of " power and ...
... imagination , his elegance , and his melody , with equal alacrity , for Charles the Second . It is not possible to read , without some contempt and indignation , poems of the same author , ascribing the highest degree of " power and ...
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... imagination : but religion must be shown as it is ; sup- pression and addition equally corrupt it ; and such as it is , it is known already . : From poetry the reader justly expects , and from good poetry always obtains , the ...
... imagination : but religion must be shown as it is ; sup- pression and addition equally corrupt it ; and such as it is , it is known already . : From poetry the reader justly expects , and from good poetry always obtains , the ...
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... mythology , for which it is vain to plead the example of ancient poets ; the deities , which they intro- duced so frequently , were considered as realities , so far as to be received by the imagination , whatever sober reason WALLER . 49.
... mythology , for which it is vain to plead the example of ancient poets ; the deities , which they intro- duced so frequently , were considered as realities , so far as to be received by the imagination , whatever sober reason WALLER . 49.
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Samuel Johnson. to be received by the imagination , whatever sober reason might even then determine . But of these images time has tarnished the splendour . A fiction , not only detected but despised , can never afford a solid basis to ...
Samuel Johnson. to be received by the imagination , whatever sober reason might even then determine . But of these images time has tarnished the splendour . A fiction , not only detected but despised , can never afford a solid basis to ...
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... imagination . Into a mind already occupied by such fancies , another , not more reasonable , might easily find its way . He that could fear lest his genius had fallen upon too old a world , or too chill a climate , might consistently ...
... imagination . Into a mind already occupied by such fancies , another , not more reasonable , might easily find its way . He that could fear lest his genius had fallen upon too old a world , or too chill a climate , might consistently ...
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