English Critical Essays (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) Selected and Ed. by Edmund D. JonesEdmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1940 - 460 pages |
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... imagination would raise either irregularly or loosely ; at least , if the poet commits errors with this help , he would make greater and more without it : ' tis , in short , a slow and painful , but the surest kind of working . Ovid ...
... imagination would raise either irregularly or loosely ; at least , if the poet commits errors with this help , he would make greater and more without it : ' tis , in short , a slow and painful , but the surest kind of working . Ovid ...
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... imagination being fired with that agitation sets the very things before our eyes , and consequently makes us have the same passions that we should have from the things themselves . For the warmer the imagination is , the more present ...
... imagination being fired with that agitation sets the very things before our eyes , and consequently makes us have the same passions that we should have from the things themselves . For the warmer the imagination is , the more present ...
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... imagination naturally fruitful and superstitious . Besides this , he ought to be very well versed in legends and fables , antiquated romances , and the traditions of nurses and old women , that he may fall in with our natural prejudices ...
... imagination naturally fruitful and superstitious . Besides this , he ought to be very well versed in legends and fables , antiquated romances , and the traditions of nurses and old women , that he may fall in with our natural prejudices ...
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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 1 |
THOMAS CAMPION 15671620 | 65 |
SAMUEL DANIEL 15621619 | 72 |
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