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Page 192
... imagination . Sapiens dominabitur aftris . The author that thinks himfelf weather - bound will find , with a little help from hellebore , that he is only idle or exhaufted . But while this notion has poffeffion of the head , it produces ...
... imagination . Sapiens dominabitur aftris . The author that thinks himfelf weather - bound will find , with a little help from hellebore , that he is only idle or exhaufted . But while this notion has poffeffion of the head , it produces ...
Page 193
... imagination . * This opinion is , with great learning and ingenuity , refuted in a book now very little known , " An Apology or " Declaration of the Power and Providence of God in the " Government of the World , " by Dr. George Hakewill ...
... imagination . * This opinion is , with great learning and ingenuity , refuted in a book now very little known , " An Apology or " Declaration of the Power and Providence of God in the " Government of the World , " by Dr. George Hakewill ...
Page 232
... imagination * . The greatest of his juvenile performances is the Mafk of Comus , in which may very plainly be discovered the dawn or twilight of Paradife Loft . Milton appears to have formed very early that fyftem of diction , and mode ...
... imagination * . The greatest of his juvenile performances is the Mafk of Comus , in which may very plainly be discovered the dawn or twilight of Paradife Loft . Milton appears to have formed very early that fyftem of diction , and mode ...
Page 233
... imagination ; but , fo far as the action is merely human , it ought to be reasonable , which can hardly be faid of the conduct of the two bro- thers ; who , when their fifter finks with fa- tigue in a pathlefs wilderness , wander both ...
... imagination ; but , fo far as the action is merely human , it ought to be reasonable , which can hardly be faid of the conduct of the two bro- thers ; who , when their fifter finks with fa- tigue in a pathlefs wilderness , wander both ...
Page 237
... fupply him with illuf- trations and images . To put thefe materials to poetical ufe , is required an imagination capable of painting nature , and realizing fic- tion . tion . Nor is he yet a poet till he MILTON . 237.
... fupply him with illuf- trations and images . To put thefe materials to poetical ufe , is required an imagination capable of painting nature , and realizing fic- tion . tion . Nor is he yet a poet till he MILTON . 237.
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Æneid againſt almoſt Anacreon anſwered appears becauſe cenfured compofitions Comus confeffed confidered converfation Cowley deferve defign defire delight diſcovered Dryden eafily Earl elegance Engliſh expreffed expreffion fafe faid fame fatire fays fecond feems feldom fenfe fent fentiments fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon ftate ftill ftudies ftyle fubject fuch fufficiently fupply fuppofed fure greateſt Hiftory himſelf houfe houſe Hudibras itſelf King known laft laſt Latin learning leaſt lefs Lord Lord Conway mafter Milton mind moft moſt muft muſt neceffary never NIHIL numbers obfervation occafion paffage paffed paffion Paradife Loft parliament perfons perhaps Philips Pindar pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry praife praiſe prefent preferved profe publick publiſhed purpoſe raiſe reafon reprefented rhyme ſeems ſtudy thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou thought tion tranflation underſtanding univerfity uſe verfe verfification verſes Waller whofe whoſe write