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Page 64
... so vast , that the imagination almost fails to grasp it . Ab integro sæclo- rum nascitur ordo . [ If I have insisted so much on the course which criticism must take where politics and religion are concerned , 64 ESSAYS IN CRITICISM .
... so vast , that the imagination almost fails to grasp it . Ab integro sæclo- rum nascitur ordo . [ If I have insisted so much on the course which criticism must take where politics and religion are concerned , 64 ESSAYS IN CRITICISM .
Page 86
... imagination which they exhibit , — qualities which are the distinctive support of poetry . But , as I have said , the qualities of genius are less transferable than the qualities of intelligence ; less can be immediately learned and ...
... imagination which they exhibit , — qualities which are the distinctive support of poetry . But , as I have said , the qualities of genius are less transferable than the qualities of intelligence ; less can be immediately learned and ...
Page 100
... imaginative ; yes , that is just it , it is Asiatic prose , as the ancient critics would have said ; prose somewhat barbarously rich and overloaded . But the true prose is Attic prose . Well , but Addison's prose is Attic prose . Where ...
... imaginative ; yes , that is just it , it is Asiatic prose , as the ancient critics would have said ; prose somewhat barbarously rich and overloaded . But the true prose is Attic prose . Well , but Addison's prose is Attic prose . Where ...
Page 151
... imagination will still fall far short of these home - joys in their delightful reality . " I said the foregoing should be my last extract , but who could resist this picture of a January evening on the coast of Brittany ? — " All the ...
... imagination will still fall far short of these home - joys in their delightful reality . " I said the foregoing should be my last extract , but who could resist this picture of a January evening on the coast of Brittany ? — " All the ...
Page 158
... imagination and held it prisoner . Poetry is the interpretress of the natural world , and she is the interpretress of the moral world ; it was as the interpretress of the natural world that she had Guérin for her mouthpiece . To make ...
... imagination and held it prisoner . Poetry is the interpretress of the natural world , and she is the interpretress of the moral world ; it was as the interpretress of the natural world that she had Guérin for her mouthpiece . To make ...
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