The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 55–56. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... nature THE which seem to hold a middle place between the organs of bodily fenfe and the faculties of moral per- ception : They have been called by a very general name , The Powers of Imagination . Like the external fenfes , they relate ...
... nature THE which seem to hold a middle place between the organs of bodily fenfe and the faculties of moral per- ception : They have been called by a very general name , The Powers of Imagination . Like the external fenfes , they relate ...
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... nature , and all the various entertainment we meet with either in poetry , painting , mufic , or any of the elegant arts , might be deducible from one or other of thofe principles in the conflitution of the bu- man mind , which are here ...
... nature , and all the various entertainment we meet with either in poetry , painting , mufic , or any of the elegant arts , might be deducible from one or other of thofe principles in the conflitution of the bu- man mind , which are here ...
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... nature , that which arifes from ridicule , came next to be confidered . As this is the foundation of the comic manner in all the arts , and has been but very imperfectly treated by mo- ral writers , it was thought proper to give it a ...
... nature , that which arifes from ridicule , came next to be confidered . As this is the foundation of the comic manner in all the arts , and has been but very imperfectly treated by mo- ral writers , it was thought proper to give it a ...
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... nature . After which , the work concludes with fome reflections on the general conduct of the powers of imagination , and on their natural and moral ufefulness in life , Concerning the manner or turn of composition which prevails in ...
... nature . After which , the work concludes with fome reflections on the general conduct of the powers of imagination , and on their natural and moral ufefulness in life , Concerning the manner or turn of composition which prevails in ...
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... natural , as the author's aim was not so much to give formal precepts , or enter into . the way of direct argumentation , as , by exhi- biting the most engaging profpects of nature , to enlarge and harmonize the imagination , and by ...
... natural , as the author's aim was not so much to give formal precepts , or enter into . the way of direct argumentation , as , by exhi- biting the most engaging profpects of nature , to enlarge and harmonize the imagination , and by ...
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