A Literary History of England: The Restoration and eighteenth century, 1660-1789, by George SherburnAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1948 - 1673 pages |
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... Imagination made the subjection of imagination to judgment excessive , and at times and Judg- were too moralistic or too much devoted to a prosaic common - sense attitude towards life . With the rules that concerned unity in structure ...
... Imagination made the subjection of imagination to judgment excessive , and at times and Judg- were too moralistic or too much devoted to a prosaic common - sense attitude towards life . With the rules that concerned unity in structure ...
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... imagination . On the Dennis , Shaftesbury , and Addison differed notably in their accounts of magination the imagination . To Dennis its function was to vivify , to present absent objects to the mind as if present . Images of " absent ...
... imagination . On the Dennis , Shaftesbury , and Addison differed notably in their accounts of magination the imagination . To Dennis its function was to vivify , to present absent objects to the mind as if present . Images of " absent ...
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... Imagination " ( frequently only this title is cited ) as showing that Johnson distrusted poetical imagination . In practical or philosophical matters it is to be distrusted when it prevails over reason and becomes insanity or practical ...
... Imagination " ( frequently only this title is cited ) as showing that Johnson distrusted poetical imagination . In practical or philosophical matters it is to be distrusted when it prevails over reason and becomes insanity or practical ...
Contents
List of Abbreviations | 696 |
Literary Criticism of the Restoration | 710 |
III The Poetry of Dryden | 722 |
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