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Page 125
As human passions did not enter the world before the Fall, there is in the
Paradise Lost little opportunity for the pathetick; but what little there is has not
been lost. That passion which is peculiar to rational nature, the anguish arising
from the ...
As human passions did not enter the world before the Fall, there is in the
Paradise Lost little opportunity for the pathetick; but what little there is has not
been lost. That passion which is peculiar to rational nature, the anguish arising
from the ...
Page 339
For all the passions, in their turns, are to be set in a ferment : as joy, anger, love,
fear, are to be used as the poet's commonplaces; and a general concernment for
the principal actors is to be raised, by making them appear such in their ...
For all the passions, in their turns, are to be set in a ferment : as joy, anger, love,
fear, are to be used as the poet's commonplaces; and a general concernment for
the principal actors is to be raised, by making them appear such in their ...
Page 434
That party and passion, and prepossession, are clamorous and tumultuous
things, and so much the more clamorous and tumultuous by how much the more
erroneous : that they domineer and tyrannize over the imaginations of persons
who ...
That party and passion, and prepossession, are clamorous and tumultuous
things, and so much the more clamorous and tumultuous by how much the more
erroneous : that they domineer and tyrannize over the imaginations of persons
who ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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