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Moral and Political Dialogues: With Letters on Chivalry and Romance - Page 302
by Richard Hurd - 1776
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The British Essayists, Volume 12

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 346 pages
...persons and manners of another species ! Men of cold fancies, and philosophical dispositions, object (o this kind of poetry, that it has not probability enough to affect the imagination. But to this it may be answered, that we are sure, in general, there are many intellectual beings in the...
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The works of Richard Hurd, Volume 4

Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 456 pages
...Fairy way of writing, " Men of cold fancies "• and philosophical dispositions, says he, ob" ject to this kind of poetry, that it has not *' probability...enough to affect the imagination. " But — many are prepossest with such false -*f opinions, as dispose them to believe these " particular delusions :...
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Moral and political dialogues

Richard Hurd - 1811 - 394 pages
...the Fairy way of writing, " Men of cold fancies " and philosophical dispositions, says he, ob" ject to this kind of poetry, that it has not " probability...enough to affect the imagination. " But — many are prepossest with such false (e opinions, as dispose them to believe these " particular delusions : at...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 322 pages
...persons and manners of another species ! Men of cold fancies, and philosophical dispositions, object to this kind of poetry, that it has not probability enough to affect the imagination. But to this it may be answered, that we are sure in general, there are many intellectual beings in the...
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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index ..., Volume 8

Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 268 pages
...the persons and manners of another species? Men of cold fancies and philosophical dispositions object to this kind of poetry, that it has not probability enough to affect the imagination. But to this it may be answered, that we are sure, in general, there are many intellectual beings in the...
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The Spectator, no. 315-635

Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 478 pages
...the person and manners of another species! Men of cold fancies and philosophical dispositions, object to this kind of poetry, that it has not probability enough to affect the imagination. "But to this it may be answered, that we are sure, in general, there are many intellectual beings in the...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the ..., Volumes 7-8

Spectator The - 1853 - 548 pages
...persons and manners of another species! Men of cold fancies, and philosophical dispositions, object to this kind of poetry, that it has not probability enough to affect the imagination. But to this it may be answered, that we are sure, in general, there are many intellectual beings in the...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 698 pages
...persons and manners of another species ? Men of cold fancies, and philosophical dispositions, object to this kind of poetry, that it has not probability enough to affect the imagination. But to this it may be answered, that we are sure in general, there are many intellectual beings in the...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp ..., Volume 5

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 726 pages
...persons and manners of another species ? Men of cold fancies, and philosophical dispositions, object to this kind of poetry, that it has not probability enough to affect the imagination. But to this it may be answered, that we are sure in general, there are many intellectual beings in the...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 pages
...persons and manners of another species ? Men of cold fancies, and philosophical dispositions, objeet to this kind of poetry, that it has not probability enough to affeet the imagination. But to this it may be answered, that we are sure in general, there are many...
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