Essays, Letters from AbroadMoxon, 1845 - 164 pages |
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... ACCORDING to one mode of regarding those two classes of mental action , which are called reason and imagination , the former may be considered as mind contemplating the relations borne by one thought to another , however produced ; and ...
... ACCORDING to one mode of regarding those two classes of mental action , which are called reason and imagination , the former may be considered as mind contemplating the relations borne by one thought to another , however produced ; and ...
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... according to the circum- stances of the age and nation in which they appeared , were called , in the earlier epochs of the world , legislators , or prophets : a poet essentially comprises and unites both these characters . ( For he not ...
... according to the circum- stances of the age and nation in which they appeared , were called , in the earlier epochs of the world , legislators , or prophets : a poet essentially comprises and unites both these characters . ( For he not ...
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... according to the unchangeable forms of human nature , as existing in the mind of the Creator , which is itself the image of all other minds . The one is partial , and applies only to a definite period of time , and a certain com ...
... according to the unchangeable forms of human nature , as existing in the mind of the Creator , which is itself the image of all other minds . The one is partial , and applies only to a definite period of time , and a certain com ...
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... according to its own idea ; the consequence was empire , and the reward ever- living fame . These things are not the less poetry , quia carent vate sacro . They are the episodes of that cyclic poem written by Time upon the memo- ries of ...
... according to its own idea ; the consequence was empire , and the reward ever- living fame . These things are not the less poetry , quia carent vate sacro . They are the episodes of that cyclic poem written by Time upon the memo- ries of ...
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... according to the laws of epic truth ; that is , according to the laws of that principle by which a series of actions of the external universe and of intelligent and ethical beings is calculated to excite the sympa- thy of succeeding ...
... according to the laws of epic truth ; that is , according to the laws of that principle by which a series of actions of the external universe and of intelligent and ethical beings is calculated to excite the sympa- thy of succeeding ...
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