The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 55–56. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. THE POE M S O F AKEN SID E. 7 [ ] ADVERTISEMENT то THE FIRST EDITION , 1772 .
With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. THE POE M S O F AKEN SID E. 7 [ ] ADVERTISEMENT то THE FIRST EDITION , 1772 .
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... first publication of it was at a very early part of the Author's life . That it wanted Revifion and Cor- rection , he was fufficiently fenfible ; but fo quick was the demand for several fucceffive republications , that in any of the ...
... first publication of it was at a very early part of the Author's life . That it wanted Revifion and Cor- rection , he was fufficiently fenfible ; but fo quick was the demand for several fucceffive republications , that in any of the ...
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... first of all to diftinguish the Imagination from our other faculties ; and in the next place to characterize thofe original forms or properties of being , about which it is converfant , and which are by nature adapted to it , as light ...
... first of all to diftinguish the Imagination from our other faculties ; and in the next place to characterize thofe original forms or properties of being , about which it is converfant , and which are by nature adapted to it , as light ...
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... first kind is that various and complicated resemblance existing between several parts of the material and immaterial worlds , which is the foundation of metaphor and wit . As it feems in a great measure to depend on the early ...
... first kind is that various and complicated resemblance existing between several parts of the material and immaterial worlds , which is the foundation of metaphor and wit . As it feems in a great measure to depend on the early ...
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... FIRST . THE fubject propofed . Difficulty of treating it poeti- cally . The ideas of the divine mind , the origin of . every quality pleafing to the imagination . The na- tural variety of conftitution in the minds of men ; with its ...
... FIRST . THE fubject propofed . Difficulty of treating it poeti- cally . The ideas of the divine mind , the origin of . every quality pleafing to the imagination . The na- tural variety of conftitution in the minds of men ; with its ...
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