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... wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind . He sent his faculties out upon discovery , into worlds where only imagination can travel , and delighted to form new modes of existence , and fur- nish ...
... wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind . He sent his faculties out upon discovery , into worlds where only imagination can travel , and delighted to form new modes of existence , and fur- nish ...
Page 93
... wide field how he his way should find , O'er which lame Faith leads Understanding blind ; Lest he'd perplex the things he would explain , And what was easy he should render vain . Or if a work so infinite he span'd , Jealous I was ...
... wide field how he his way should find , O'er which lame Faith leads Understanding blind ; Lest he'd perplex the things he would explain , And what was easy he should render vain . Or if a work so infinite he span'd , Jealous I was ...
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... No vulgar hero can his Muse engage , Nor earth's wide scene confine his hallow'd rage . See ! see ! he upward springs , and , 94 ENCOMIUMS UPON MILTON . Epigram on Milton By Dryden From an Account of the greatest English Poets Addison.
... No vulgar hero can his Muse engage , Nor earth's wide scene confine his hallow'd rage . See ! see ! he upward springs , and , 94 ENCOMIUMS UPON MILTON . Epigram on Milton By Dryden From an Account of the greatest English Poets Addison.
Page 125
... wide Within , her ample spaces , o'er the smooth And level pavement : from the arched roof , Pendant by subtle magic , many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets , fed With naphtha and asphaltus , yielded light As from a sky . The ...
... wide Within , her ample spaces , o'er the smooth And level pavement : from the arched roof , Pendant by subtle magic , many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets , fed With naphtha and asphaltus , yielded light As from a sky . The ...
Page 126
... wide , but chief the spacious hall ( Though like a cover'd field , where champions bold Wont ride in arm'd , and at the Soldan's chair Defied the best of Panim chivalry To mortal combat , or career with lance , ) Thick swarm'd , both on ...
... wide , but chief the spacious hall ( Though like a cover'd field , where champions bold Wont ride in arm'd , and at the Soldan's chair Defied the best of Panim chivalry To mortal combat , or career with lance , ) Thick swarm'd , both on ...
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.