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Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode intituled The Muse, who goes
to take the air in an intellectual chariot, to which he harnesses Fancy and
Judgement, Wit and Eloquence, Memory and Invention: how he distinguished Wit
from ...
Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode intituled The Muse, who goes
to take the air in an intellectual chariot, to which he harnesses Fancy and
Judgement, Wit and Eloquence, Memory and Invention: how he distinguished Wit
from ...
Page 203
From poetry the reader justly expects, and from good poetry always obtains, the
enlargement of his comprehension and elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to
be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, ...
From poetry the reader justly expects, and from good poetry always obtains, the
enlargement of his comprehension and elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to
be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, ...
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may depend upon his own opinion ; but that, in those parts where fancy
predominates, self-love may easily deceive. He might have observed, that what is
good only because it pleases, cannot be pronounced good till it has been found
to ...
may depend upon his own opinion ; but that, in those parts where fancy
predominates, self-love may easily deceive. He might have observed, that what is
good only because it pleases, cannot be pronounced good till it has been found
to ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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