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... Common Effects of Poetry , not by raising Ideas of things . 170 III . General Words before Ideas 171 IV . The Effect of Words 172 v . Examples that Words may affect without raising Images 173 VI . Poetry not strictly an imitative Art ...
... Common Effects of Poetry , not by raising Ideas of things . 170 III . General Words before Ideas 171 IV . The Effect of Words 172 v . Examples that Words may affect without raising Images 173 VI . Poetry not strictly an imitative Art ...
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... common , they cannot want a number of admirers of as much docility as can be wished for in disciples . To these the editor of the following little piece has addressed it : there is no reason to conceal the design of it any longer . The ...
... common , they cannot want a number of admirers of as much docility as can be wished for in disciples . To these the editor of the following little piece has addressed it : there is no reason to conceal the design of it any longer . The ...
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... common arbitrator to resort to in their differences . These were evils which they could not but have felt pretty severely on many occasions . The original children of the earth lived with their brethren of the other kinds in much ...
... common arbitrator to resort to in their differences . These were evils which they could not but have felt pretty severely on many occasions . The original children of the earth lived with their brethren of the other kinds in much ...
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... common principle of action , but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . The next personage who figures in the tragedies of this ancient theatre is Semiramis : for we have no particulars of Ninus , but that he made immense ...
... common principle of action , but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . The next personage who figures in the tragedies of this ancient theatre is Semiramis : for we have no particulars of Ninus , but that he made immense ...
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... common nature , and subject to the same law . There is some- thing so averse from our own nature in these artificial poli- tical distinctions , that we need no other trumpet to kindle us to war and destruction . But there is something ...
... common nature , and subject to the same law . There is some- thing so averse from our own nature in these artificial poli- tical distinctions , that we need no other trumpet to kindle us to war and destruction . But there is something ...
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