The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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Page 587
... ORIGINAL COMPOSITION Imitations are of two kinds : one of nature , one of authors . The first we call originals , and confine the term imitation to the second . I shall not enter into the curious inquiry of what is , or is not ...
... ORIGINAL COMPOSITION Imitations are of two kinds : one of nature , one of authors . The first we call originals , and confine the term imitation to the second . I shall not enter into the curious inquiry of what is , or is not ...
Page 605
... original genius will naturally discover itself in visions . This is a species of fiction to succeed in which with applause re- quires as much poetic inspiration as any other spe- cies of composition whatever . That enthusiasm of ...
... original genius will naturally discover itself in visions . This is a species of fiction to succeed in which with applause re- quires as much poetic inspiration as any other spe- cies of composition whatever . That enthusiasm of ...
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... original author by such means , nor , strictly speaking , so much as ac- quire the materials by the use of which he may justly attain this character : for the ideas derived from books , that is , from the ideas of others , can by no ...
... original author by such means , nor , strictly speaking , so much as ac- quire the materials by the use of which he may justly attain this character : for the ideas derived from books , that is , from the ideas of others , can by no ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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