LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... imagination and elegance of language has deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral ora- tion rather than a history : he has given the character ...
... imagination and elegance of language has deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral ora- tion rather than a history : he has given the character ...
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... imagination is not always gratified , at least the powers of reflexion and comparison are employed ; and in the mass of matetials which ingenious absurdity has thrown together , genuine wit and useful knowledge may be sometimes found ...
... imagination is not always gratified , at least the powers of reflexion and comparison are employed ; and in the mass of matetials which ingenious absurdity has thrown together , genuine wit and useful knowledge may be sometimes found ...
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... imagination to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by consequence their joys and griefs are not easily adopted , nor can the attention be often interested in any thing that befalls them . To the subject thus ...
... imagination to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by consequence their joys and griefs are not easily adopted , nor can the attention be often interested in any thing that befalls them . To the subject thus ...
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... imagination . Sapiens dominabitur astris . The author that thinks him- self weather - bound will find , with a little help from hellebore , that he is only idle or exhausted . But while this notion has possession of the head , it pro ...
... imagination . Sapiens dominabitur astris . The author that thinks him- self weather - bound will find , with a little help from hellebore , that he is only idle or exhausted . But while this notion has possession of the head , it pro ...
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... imagination * . The greatest of his juvenile performances is the Mask of Comus ; in which may very plainly be discovered the dawn or twilight of Paradise Lost . Milton appears to have formed very early that system of diction , and mode ...
... imagination * . The greatest of his juvenile performances is the Mask of Comus ; in which may very plainly be discovered the dawn or twilight of Paradise Lost . Milton appears to have formed very early that system of diction , and mode ...
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