The Spectator, Volume 2J. J. Woodward, 1830 |
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Page 148
imagination of all the good poets that have come after him . I shall only instance Ho- race , who immediately takes fire at the first hint of any passage in the Iliad or Odyssey , and always rises above himself when he has Homer in his ...
imagination of all the good poets that have come after him . I shall only instance Ho- race , who immediately takes fire at the first hint of any passage in the Iliad or Odyssey , and always rises above himself when he has Homer in his ...
Page 151
... IMAGINATION . Contents What authors please the imagination . Who have nothing to do with fiction . How history pleases the imagination . How the authors of the new philo sophy please the imagination . The bounds and de- fects of the ...
... IMAGINATION . Contents What authors please the imagination . Who have nothing to do with fiction . How history pleases the imagination . How the authors of the new philo sophy please the imagination . The bounds and de- fects of the ...
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... imagination ; we are able to see some- thoughts a length of a thousand diameters thing like colour and shape in a notion , of the earth , with that of a million , and he and to discover a scheme of thoughts traced will quickly find that ...
... imagination ; we are able to see some- thoughts a length of a thousand diameters thing like colour and shape in a notion , of the earth , with that of a million , and he and to discover a scheme of thoughts traced will quickly find that ...
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