The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 92
... imagination to the help of reason . Epick poetry un- dertakes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing precepts , and , therefore , relates some great event in the most affecting manner . History must supply the writer ...
... imagination to the help of reason . Epick poetry un- dertakes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing precepts , and , therefore , relates some great event in the most affecting manner . History must supply the writer ...
Pagina 93
... imagination capable of painting nature , and realizing fiction . Nor is he yet a poet till he has attained the whole ex- tension of his language , distinguished all the deli- cacies of phrase , and all the colours of words , and learned ...
... imagination capable of painting nature , and realizing fiction . Nor is he yet a poet till he has attained the whole ex- tension of his language , distinguished all the deli- cacies of phrase , and all the colours of words , and learned ...
Pagina 95
... imagination represent them , is the task which this mighty poet has undertaken and performed . In the examination of epick poems much specu- lation is commonly employed upon the characters . The characters in the Paradise Lost , which ...
... imagination represent them , is the task which this mighty poet has undertaken and performed . In the examination of epick poems much specu- lation is commonly employed upon the characters . The characters in the Paradise Lost , which ...
Pagina 96
... imagination , was , indeed , one of the great difficul- ties in Milton's undertaking ; and I cannot but think that he has extricated himself with great happiness . There is in Satan's speeches little that can give pain to a pious ear ...
... imagination , was , indeed , one of the great difficul- ties in Milton's undertaking ; and I cannot but think that he has extricated himself with great happiness . There is in Satan's speeches little that can give pain to a pious ear ...
Pagina 99
... imagination in the highest degree fervid and active , to which materials were supplied by inces- sant study and unlimited curiosity . The heat of Milton's mind may be said to sublimate his learning , to throw off into his work the ...
... imagination in the highest degree fervid and active , to which materials were supplied by inces- sant study and unlimited curiosity . The heat of Milton's mind may be said to sublimate his learning , to throw off into his work the ...
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