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... pleasure - indolent to a degree , and evidently and always thinking without discipline ; letting the fine brains which God gave him work themselves ir- regularly and without end or object - and carry him whither they will . Wordsworth ...
... pleasure - indolent to a degree , and evidently and always thinking without discipline ; letting the fine brains which God gave him work themselves ir- regularly and without end or object - and carry him whither they will . Wordsworth ...
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... pleasure ; and they are at first winged , because even vain hope ex- cites and helps when first formed ; but afterwards , con- tending for the possession of the imagination with the Muses themselves , they are deprived of their wings ...
... pleasure ; and they are at first winged , because even vain hope ex- cites and helps when first formed ; but afterwards , con- tending for the possession of the imagination with the Muses themselves , they are deprived of their wings ...
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... pleasure of the eye , there is not so much in all those lines of his , throughout the entire landscape , as in half an inch square of the Persian's page . What made him take pleasure in the low colour that is only like the brown of a ...
... pleasure of the eye , there is not so much in all those lines of his , throughout the entire landscape , as in half an inch square of the Persian's page . What made him take pleasure in the low colour that is only like the brown of a ...
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from Modern Painters II 1846 | 3 |
The Imagination Penetrative | 16 |
Dante | 36 |
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