The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... imagination was similar . It is fre- quently said that Johnson “ distrusted " the imagi- nation , but what he distrusted was the use of the imagination as a practical , moral guide . For him the term still meant “ image - making , " not ...
... imagination was similar . It is fre- quently said that Johnson “ distrusted " the imagi- nation , but what he distrusted was the use of the imagination as a practical , moral guide . For him the term still meant “ image - making , " not ...
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... imagination in the Spectator which Akenside , by his own statement , 1 had read , Addison interpreted and , as it were , popularized many of Locke's ideas , particularly those ideas con- cerning the position of the imaginative faculty ...
... imagination in the Spectator which Akenside , by his own statement , 1 had read , Addison interpreted and , as it were , popularized many of Locke's ideas , particularly those ideas con- cerning the position of the imaginative faculty ...
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... imagination . To Addison , as to Locke , the mind at birth was like white paper un- touched by any impressions , and all knowledge made its entrance through the sense of sight . In the vein of Locke's empiricism he explicitly stated ...
... imagination . To Addison , as to Locke , the mind at birth was like white paper un- touched by any impressions , and all knowledge made its entrance through the sense of sight . In the vein of Locke's empiricism he explicitly stated ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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