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Page 141
... imagination and the judgment ; and hence perhaps it is that so few have ever possessed this talent in any eminent degree . Neither of these will alone bestow it ; nothing is indeed more common than to see men of very bright imaginations ...
... imagination and the judgment ; and hence perhaps it is that so few have ever possessed this talent in any eminent degree . Neither of these will alone bestow it ; nothing is indeed more common than to see men of very bright imaginations ...
Page 386
... imagination , fancy , etc. , as he has hands , feet and arms . That is a capital error . Then again , we hear of a man's ' intellectual nature , ' and of his ' moral nature , ' as if these again were divisible , and existed apart ...
... imagination , fancy , etc. , as he has hands , feet and arms . That is a capital error . Then again , we hear of a man's ' intellectual nature , ' and of his ' moral nature , ' as if these again were divisible , and existed apart ...
Page 468
... imaginative production , uttering itself in such a form as this , is altogether another and a higher thing from imaginative produc- tion uttering itself in any of the forms of prose ? And if we find a nation doubting whether there is ...
... imaginative production , uttering itself in such a form as this , is altogether another and a higher thing from imaginative produc- tion uttering itself in any of the forms of prose ? And if we find a nation doubting whether there is ...
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Abraham Newland admirable beautiful better called character Chioggia church colour Dante delight dinner drama Elena Elizabethan Era English face fancy feel fellow French Gaiety Theatre genius gentlemen Gerado give Goldsmith gondola grace Grand Canal hand head hear heart Hernani honour humour imagination Irenĉus kind lady laugh learned live look Malamocco Malebranche matter Messer mind Molière morning murder nature never Nicolas Poussin night observed Oliver Goldsmith once painted passed passion perhaps person picture play pleasure poem poet poetry poor round Sarah Bernhardt seems sense Shakespeare Sicarii Sir Roger sleep sort soul speak spirit style sweet talk taste tell theatre things thought Tintoretto tion Toad-in-the-hole told town true truth turn Venice verse Victor Hugo walk whist whole wonder words write young
References to this book
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener No preview available - 1989 |
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener Limited preview - 1989 |