A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest: With Numerous Specimens, Volume 2Charles Griffin & Company, 1871 - English language |
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... imagination in his more solemn poetry which Herrick never either reaches or aspires to.1 CARTWRIGHT . RANDOLPH . CORBET . ALL the poetical clergymen of this time , however , had not such pious muses . The Rev. William Cartwright , who ...
... imagination in his more solemn poetry which Herrick never either reaches or aspires to.1 CARTWRIGHT . RANDOLPH . CORBET . ALL the poetical clergymen of this time , however , had not such pious muses . The Rev. William Cartwright , who ...
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... imagination is warmer and more florid . But the texture of his composition is in general extremely slight , the substance of most of his pieces consisting merely of the elaboration of some single idea ; and , if VOL . II . 4 he has more ...
... imagination is warmer and more florid . But the texture of his composition is in general extremely slight , the substance of most of his pieces consisting merely of the elaboration of some single idea ; and , if VOL . II . 4 he has more ...
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... imagination to the true poetical state . The passion which is an enlivening flame in his verse half suffocates him with its smoke in his prose . — HALES . CHILLINGWORTH . Two other eminent names of theological controversialists belong ...
... imagination to the true poetical state . The passion which is an enlivening flame in his verse half suffocates him with its smoke in his prose . — HALES . CHILLINGWORTH . Two other eminent names of theological controversialists belong ...
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... imagination , in a soul made alike for the feeling of the sublime , of the beautiful , and of the picturesque , and in a style answering in its compass , flexi- bility , and sweetness to the demands of all these powers , Taylor is ...
... imagination , in a soul made alike for the feeling of the sublime , of the beautiful , and of the picturesque , and in a style answering in its compass , flexi- bility , and sweetness to the demands of all these powers , Taylor is ...
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... imagination . Out of such a writer the rightly attuned and sympa- thizing mind will draw many things more precious than any mere facts . - SIR JAMES HARRINGTON . We can merely mention Sir James Harrington's political romance entitled ...
... imagination . Out of such a writer the rightly attuned and sympa- thizing mind will draw many things more precious than any mere facts . - SIR JAMES HARRINGTON . We can merely mention Sir James Harrington's political romance entitled ...
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