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... there is ftill fomething more effential to the Art , fomething that elevates and aftonishes the Fancy , and gives a Greatnefs of Mind to the Reader , which few of the Criticks befides Longinus have confidered .
... there is ftill fomething more effential to the Art , fomething that elevates and aftonishes the Fancy , and gives a Greatnefs of Mind to the Reader , which few of the Criticks befides Longinus have confidered .
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The Reader finds a Scene drawn in ftronger Colours , and painted more to the Life in his Imagination , by the Help of Words , than by an actual Survey of the Scene which they describe . In this cafe the Poet feems to get the better of ...
The Reader finds a Scene drawn in ftronger Colours , and painted more to the Life in his Imagination , by the Help of Words , than by an actual Survey of the Scene which they describe . In this cafe the Poet feems to get the better of ...
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Now as I am very defirous Readers fhould have their Learning as cheap as poffible , it is with great Difficulty that I comply with him in this Particular . my HOWEVER , upon laying my Reafons together in the Balance , I find that thofe ...
Now as I am very defirous Readers fhould have their Learning as cheap as poffible , it is with great Difficulty that I comply with him in this Particular . my HOWEVER , upon laying my Reafons together in the Balance , I find that thofe ...
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| Title | The Spectator: ... The Spectator: |
| Publisher | Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Sep 21, 2006 |
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