The Spectator, Volume 6J. and R. Tonson, 1728 |
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... Imagination with ⚫ an Affemblage of fuch Ideas and Pictures as are hardly any thing but Shade , fuch as Night , the ' Devil , & . These Portraitures very near over- power the Light of the Understanding , almost benight the Faculties ...
... Imagination with ⚫ an Affemblage of fuch Ideas and Pictures as are hardly any thing but Shade , fuch as Night , the ' Devil , & . These Portraitures very near over- power the Light of the Understanding , almost benight the Faculties ...
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... . To foft Flutes The Silver Oars kept Time ; and while they play'd , The Hearing gave new Pleasures to the Sight , And both to Thought . HERE HERE the Imagination is warmed with all the Objects prefented 26 N ° 400 . The SPECTATOR .
... . To foft Flutes The Silver Oars kept Time ; and while they play'd , The Hearing gave new Pleasures to the Sight , And both to Thought . HERE HERE the Imagination is warmed with all the Objects prefented 26 N ° 400 . The SPECTATOR .
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HERE the Imagination is warmed with all the Objects prefented , and yet is there nothing that is lufcious , or what raifes an Idea more loofe than that of a beautiful Woman fet off to Advantage , The like , or a more delicate and ...
HERE the Imagination is warmed with all the Objects prefented , and yet is there nothing that is lufcious , or what raifes an Idea more loofe than that of a beautiful Woman fet off to Advantage , The like , or a more delicate and ...
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... Imagination , which , though it shall confider that Subject at large , will perhaps fug- geft to the Reader what it is that gives a Beauty to many Paffages of the fineft Writers both in Profe and Verfe . As an Undertaking of this Na ...
... Imagination , which , though it shall confider that Subject at large , will perhaps fug- geft to the Reader what it is that gives a Beauty to many Paffages of the fineft Writers both in Profe and Verfe . As an Undertaking of this Na ...
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... Imagination or Fancy ( which I fhall ufe pro- mifcuously ) I here mean fuch as arife from vifible Objects , either when we have them actually in our View , or when we call up their Ideas into our Minds by Paintings , Statues ...
... Imagination or Fancy ( which I fhall ufe pro- mifcuously ) I here mean fuch as arife from vifible Objects , either when we have them actually in our View , or when we call up their Ideas into our Minds by Paintings , Statues ...
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