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... who goes to take the air in an intellectual chariot, to which he harnesses Fancy
and Judgment, Wit and Eloquence, Memory and Invention : how he distinguished
Wit from Fancy, or how Memory could properly contribute to Motion, he has not ...
... who goes to take the air in an intellectual chariot, to which he harnesses Fancy
and Judgment, Wit and Eloquence, Memory and Invention : how he distinguished
Wit from Fancy, or how Memory could properly contribute to Motion, he has not ...
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fore chose a subject on which too much could not be said, on which he might tire
his fancy without the censure of extravagance. The appearances of nature, and
the occurrences of life, did not satiate his appetite of greatness. To paint things as
...
fore chose a subject on which too much could not be said, on which he might tire
his fancy without the censure of extravagance. The appearances of nature, and
the occurrences of life, did not satiate his appetite of greatness. To paint things as
...
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From poetry the reader justly expects, and from good poetry always obtains, the
enlargement of his comprehension and elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to
be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, ...
From poetry the reader justly expects, and from good poetry always obtains, the
enlargement of his comprehension and elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to
be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, ...
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... in those parts where fancy predominates, self-love may easily deceive. He
might have observed, that what is good only because it pleases, cannot be
pronounced good till it has been found to please. Sir Martin- Marr-all (1668) is a
comedy, ...
... in those parts where fancy predominates, self-love may easily deceive. He
might have observed, that what is good only because it pleases, cannot be
pronounced good till it has been found to please. Sir Martin- Marr-all (1668) is a
comedy, ...
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With ease such fond chimaeras we pursue, As fancy frames, for fancy to subdue :
But, when ourselves to action we betake, It shuns the mint like gold that chemists
make : How hard was then his task, at once to be What in the body natural we ...
With ease such fond chimaeras we pursue, As fancy frames, for fancy to subdue :
But, when ourselves to action we betake, It shuns the mint like gold that chemists
make : How hard was then his task, at once to be What in the body natural we ...
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