Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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... mind , emancipated from the influence of authority , and devoted to the search of truth . Milton professes to form his system from the Bible alone ; and his digest of scriptural texts is certainly among the best that have appeared . But ...
... mind , emancipated from the influence of authority , and devoted to the search of truth . Milton professes to form his system from the Bible alone ; and his digest of scriptural texts is certainly among the best that have appeared . But ...
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... mind . But they will not allow the author to rank with those great men who , born in the infancy of civilisation , supplied , by their own powers , the want of instruction , and , though destitute of models themselves , bequeathed ...
... mind . But they will not allow the author to rank with those great men who , born in the infancy of civilisation , supplied , by their own powers , the want of instruction , and , though destitute of models themselves , bequeathed ...
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... mind , if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our definition excludes many metrical compositions which , on other ...
... mind , if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our definition excludes many metrical compositions which , on other ...
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... should feel the teeth of the monster at her throat . Such is the despotism of the imagination over uncultivated minds . In a rude state of society men are children with a IMAGINATION VERSUS KNOWLEDGE 11 It is therefore in such a IO MILTON.
... should feel the teeth of the monster at her throat . Such is the despotism of the imagination over uncultivated minds . In a rude state of society men are children with a IMAGINATION VERSUS KNOWLEDGE 11 It is therefore in such a IO MILTON.
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... mind , as a magic lantern produces an illusion on the eye of the body . And , as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room , poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age . As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its ...
... mind , as a magic lantern produces an illusion on the eye of the body . And , as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room , poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age . As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its ...
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