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FROM An Essay on Original Genius AND ITS VARIOUS MODES OF EXERTION PARTICULARLY IN POETRY A glowing ardor of imagination is indeed ( if we may be permitted the expression ) the very soul of poetry . It is the principal source of ...
FROM An Essay on Original Genius AND ITS VARIOUS MODES OF EXERTION PARTICULARLY IN POETRY A glowing ardor of imagination is indeed ( if we may be permitted the expression ) the very soul of poetry . It is the principal source of ...
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To assert that this divine art , to an excellence in which the highest efforts of human genius are requisite , should attain its utmost perfection in the infancy of society , when mankind are only emerging from a state of ignorance and ...
To assert that this divine art , to an excellence in which the highest efforts of human genius are requisite , should attain its utmost perfection in the infancy of society , when mankind are only emerging from a state of ignorance and ...
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Genius naturally shoots forth in the simplicity and tranquillity of uncultivated life . The undisturbed peace and the innocent rural pleasures of this primeval state are , if we may so express it , congenial to its nature .
Genius naturally shoots forth in the simplicity and tranquillity of uncultivated life . The undisturbed peace and the innocent rural pleasures of this primeval state are , if we may so express it , congenial to its nature .
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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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