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Page 274
To paint things as they are requires a minute attention , and employs the memory rather than the fancy . Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind .
To paint things as they are requires a minute attention , and employs the memory rather than the fancy . Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind .
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For , wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas , and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity , thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ...
For , wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas , and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity , thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ...
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than good , and be more stuffed with bombast , ill fancy , and wry thought than filled with solid sense and just imagination . But notwithstanding this hazard of our taste from a multiplicity of reading , we are not , it seems ...
than good , and be more stuffed with bombast , ill fancy , and wry thought than filled with solid sense and just imagination . But notwithstanding this hazard of our taste from a multiplicity of reading , we are not , it seems ...
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General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
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| Title | The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical Essays |
| Editor | John L. Mahoney |
| Publisher | D. C. Heath, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0669023213, 9780669023213 |
| Length | 765 pages |
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