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Page 93
... human reason can examine them , or human imagination represent them , is the task which this mighty poet has undertaken and performed . In the examination of epic poems much speculation is com- monly employed upon the characters . The ...
... human reason can examine them , or human imagination represent them , is the task which this mighty poet has undertaken and performed . In the examination of epic poems much speculation is com- monly employed upon the characters . The ...
Page 99
... human actions nor human manners . The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know . The reader finds no transaction in which he can by any effort of imagination place himself ; he has ...
... human actions nor human manners . The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know . The reader finds no transaction in which he can by any effort of imagination place himself ; he has ...
Page 399
... human life were copied from the instinctive operations of other animals --that if the world be made for man , it may be said that man was made for geese . To these profound principles of natural knowledge are added some moral ...
... human life were copied from the instinctive operations of other animals --that if the world be made for man , it may be said that man was made for geese . To these profound principles of natural knowledge are added some moral ...
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Absalom and Achitophel acquaintance Addison Æneid afterwards appears blank verse censure character considered conversation Cowley criticism death declared delight desire diction diligence Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English excellence expected faults favour friends genius Georgics happy honour Iliad images imagination imitation John Dryden John Wain Johnson kind King knew known labour language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax mentioned metaphysical poets Milton mind nature neglected never NIHIL numbers observed occasion once opinion Paradise Lost passions performance perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise produced published Queen reader reason received remarks reputation resentment rhyme Samuel Johnson satire Savage says seems sentiments solicited sometimes sufficient supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thought told tragedy translation truth Tyrconnel verses Virgil virtue write written wrote