Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 pages |
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... imagination which have appeared in dark ages , we do not admire them the more because they have appeared in dark ages . On the contrary , we hold that the most won- derful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem pro- duced in a ...
... imagination which have appeared in dark ages , we do not admire them the more because they have appeared in dark ages . On the contrary , we hold that the most won- derful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem pro- duced in a ...
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... imagination . In proportion as men know more , and thinkʼmore , they look less at individuals and more at classes . They therefore make better theories , and worse poems . They give us vague phrases instead of images , and personified ...
... imagination . In proportion as men know more , and thinkʼmore , they look less at individuals and more at classes . They therefore make better theories , and worse poems . They give us vague phrases instead of images , and personified ...
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... imagination : the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours . Thus the greatest of poets has described it , in lines universally admired for the vigour and felicity of their diction , and still more valu ...
... imagination : the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours . Thus the greatest of poets has described it , in lines universally admired for the vigour and felicity of their diction , and still more valu ...
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... imagination over uncultivated minds . In a rude state of society , men are children with a greater variety of ideas . It is therefore in such a state of society that we may expect to find the poetical temperament in its highest ...
... imagination over uncultivated minds . In a rude state of society , men are children with a greater variety of ideas . It is therefore in such a state of society that we may expect to find the poetical temperament in its highest ...
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... imagination ; nor indeed do we think his classical diction comparable to that of Milton . The authority of Johnson is against us on this point . But Johnson had studied the bad writers of the middle ages till he had become utterly ...
... imagination ; nor indeed do we think his classical diction comparable to that of Milton . The authority of Johnson is against us on this point . But Johnson had studied the bad writers of the middle ages till he had become utterly ...
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