Literary Criticism: An Introductory ReaderLionel Trilling |
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... imagination , the isolated caprice of an excited brain , but a transcript of contemporary manners , a manifestation of the mind of the people among whom Homer lived and for whom he composed his poems . But such maltreatment as ...
... imagination , the isolated caprice of an excited brain , but a transcript of contemporary manners , a manifestation of the mind of the people among whom Homer lived and for whom he composed his poems . But such maltreatment as ...
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... imagination in the highest degree fervid and active , to which materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity . The heat of Milton's mind might be said to suplimate his learning , to throw off into his work the ...
... imagination in the highest degree fervid and active , to which materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity . The heat of Milton's mind might be said to suplimate his learning , to throw off into his work the ...
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... imagination ; the touching and the sublime , the reason and the imagination . It is true that we also take pleasure in the charın [ Reiz ] or the power called out by action from play , but art uses charm only to accompany the higher ...
... imagination ; the touching and the sublime , the reason and the imagination . It is true that we also take pleasure in the charın [ Reiz ] or the power called out by action from play , but art uses charm only to accompany the higher ...
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