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Page 41
... truth but with its poetic truth as embodied in the narrative ; and we must go along with the poet in his telling of a story he himself accepted as perfect truth . This is a critical truism , yet how many accept it in the case of ...
... truth but with its poetic truth as embodied in the narrative ; and we must go along with the poet in his telling of a story he himself accepted as perfect truth . This is a critical truism , yet how many accept it in the case of ...
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... truth cannot be discovered by dispassionate reasoning but only by an act of the whole mind in which thought and feeling work together , culminating in a direct vision , an intuition of the truth . In March 1801 he writes : ' My opinion ...
... truth cannot be discovered by dispassionate reasoning but only by an act of the whole mind in which thought and feeling work together , culminating in a direct vision , an intuition of the truth . In March 1801 he writes : ' My opinion ...
Page 92
... truth , that the activity of the imagination is determined subjectively by the laws of our common sense , and objectively by the truth of things , and thus differs essentially from the accidental and seemingly capricious combinations of ...
... truth , that the activity of the imagination is determined subjectively by the laws of our common sense , and objectively by the truth of things , and thus differs essentially from the accidental and seemingly capricious combinations of ...
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accepted action Adam and Eve Adam's angels appear argument become beginning better Book called century character comes common course created creation criticism Death describing doctrine Earth effect English epic evil example expressed fact Fall Father feel figure follows fruit God's hand Heaven Hell heroic human ideas images imagination knowledge language Latin less light lines live look means MICHIGAN Milton mind narrative nature never once opening original Paradise Lost passage peace person picture poem poet poetic poetry presented question reader reason relation represent Satan says scene seen sense sight simile stand story style tells thee things thir thou thought tion told true truth UNIVERSITY verse whole wind write