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Page 552
The implex fable is therefore of two kinds : in the first , the chief actor makes his way through ... I have taken some pains in a former paper to show that this kind of implex fable , wherein the event is unhappy , is more apt to ...
The implex fable is therefore of two kinds : in the first , the chief actor makes his way through ... I have taken some pains in a former paper to show that this kind of implex fable , wherein the event is unhappy , is more apt to ...
Page 570
But who is there once thinks of cultivating this soil , or of improving any sense or faculty which Nature may have given of this kind ? And is it a wonder we should be dull then , as we are , confounded and at a loss in these affairs ...
But who is there once thinks of cultivating this soil , or of improving any sense or faculty which Nature may have given of this kind ? And is it a wonder we should be dull then , as we are , confounded and at a loss in these affairs ...
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It is the principal source of inspiration , and the poet who is possessed of it , like the Delphian priestess , is animated with a kind of divine fury . The intenseness and vigour of his sensations produce the enthusiasm of imagination ...
It is the principal source of inspiration , and the poet who is possessed of it , like the Delphian priestess , is animated with a kind of divine fury . The intenseness and vigour of his sensations produce the enthusiasm of imagination ...
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Contents
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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