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" That state, in which human nature shoots wild and free, though unfit for other improvements, certainly encourages the high exertions of fancy and passion. "
The poems of Ossian, tr. by J. Macpherson. To which are prefixed ... - Page 50
by Ossian - 1805
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The poems of Ossian, tr. by J. Macpherson. Blair's critical ..., Volume 1

Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...the soul of poetry. For many circumstances of those times which we call barbarous, are favourable to the poetical spirit. That state, in which human nature...objects, to them new and strange ; their wonder and surprize are frequently excited; and by the sudden changes of fortune occurring in their unsettled...
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The poems of Ossian, tr. by J. Macpherson. To which are prefixed ..., Volume 1

Ossian - 1807 - 458 pages
...the soul of poetry: for many circumstances of those times which we call barbarous, are favourable to the poetical spirit. That state, in which human nature...objects, to them new and strange; their wonder and surprize are frequently excited ; and by the sudden changes of fortune occurring in their unsettled...
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The Poems of Ossian, Volume 2

Hugh Campbell - 1822 - 624 pages
...the soul of poetry. For many circumstances of those times which we call barbarous, are favourable to the poetical spirit. That state, in which human nature...midst of solitary rural scenes, where the beauties of flature are their chief entertainment. They meet with many objects, to them new and strange ; their...
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The poems of Ossian, tr. by J. Macpherson. To which are prefixed ...

Ossian - 1834 - 218 pages
...transactions, but disguise the manners of mankind. times which we call barbarous, are favourable to the poetical spirit. That state, in which human nature...fancy and passion. In the infancy of societies, men lived scattered and dispersed, in the midst of solitary rural scenes, where the beauties of nature...
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The Poems of Ossian: To which are Prefixed a Preliminary Discourse and ...

Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1850 - 548 pages
...the soul of poetry : for many circumstances of those times which we call barbarous, are favorable to the poetical spirit. That state, in which human nature...and dispersed in the midst of solitary rural scenes, whero the beauties of nature are their chief entertainment. They meet with many objects to them new...
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The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860

Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 596 pages
...the soul of poetry: for many circumstances of those times which we call harharous, are favorahle to the poetical spirit. That state, in which human nature...dispersed in the midst of solitary rural scenes, where the heauties of nature are their chief entertainment. They meet with many ohjects, to them new and strange;...
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The Spoken Word: Oral Culture in Britain, 1500-1850

Adam Fox, Daniel Woolf - History - 2002 - 300 pages
...intellectual culture Nicholas Hudson [M]any circumstances of those times we call barbarous are favourable to the poetical spirit. That state, in which human nature...encourages the high exertions of fancy and passion . . . An American chief, at this day, harangues at the head of his tribe, in a more bold and metaphorical...
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Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality

Richard Bauman, Charles L. Briggs - History - 2003 - 378 pages
...the soul of poetry. For many circumstances of those times which we call barbarous, are favourable to the poetical spirit. That state, in which human nature...encourages the high exertions of fancy and passion. (Blair 1970 [1765]: 2) This is a classic statement of the ideas concerning the beginnings of poetry...
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Bodybuilding: Reforming Masculinities in British Art 1750-1810

Martin Myrone - Health & Fitness - 2005 - 408 pages
...specific stage in the history of humankind. Those times which we call barbarous, are favourable to the poetical spirit. That state, in which human nature...encourages the high exertions of fancy and passion ... As their feelings are strong, so their language, of itself, assumes a poetical turn. Prone to exaggerate,...
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Mary Wollstonecraft and the Critics, 1788-2001, Volume 2

Harriet Devine, Harriet Devine Jump - Feminism and literature - 2003 - 456 pages
...the soul of poetry. For many circumstances of those times which we call barbarous, are favourable to the poetical spirit. That state, in which human nature...encourages the high exertions of fancy and passion (15). Similarly, Robert Lowth wrote the most influential prescriptivist grammar of the century, even...
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