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Instead of storing the memory , during the period when the memory is the predominant faculty , with facts for the after exercise of the judgement ; and instead of awakening by the noblest models the fond and unmixed Love and ADMIRATION ...
Instead of storing the memory , during the period when the memory is the predominant faculty , with facts for the after exercise of the judgement ; and instead of awakening by the noblest models the fond and unmixed Love and ADMIRATION ...
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According to the faculty or source , from which the pleasure given by any poem or passage was derived , I estimated the merit of such poem or passage . As the result of all my reading and meditation , I abstracted two critical aphorisms ...
According to the faculty or source , from which the pleasure given by any poem or passage was derived , I estimated the merit of such poem or passage . As the result of all my reading and meditation , I abstracted two critical aphorisms ...
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For the conceptions of the mind may be so vivid and adequate , as to preclude that impulse to the realizing of them , which is strongest and most restless in those , who possess more than mere talent ( or the faculty of appropriating ...
For the conceptions of the mind may be so vivid and adequate , as to preclude that impulse to the realizing of them , which is strongest and most restless in those , who possess more than mere talent ( or the faculty of appropriating ...
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It was the union of deep feeling with profound thought ; the fine balance of truth in observing with the imaginative faculty in modifying the objects observed ; and above all the original gift of spreading the tone , the atmosphere ...
It was the union of deep feeling with profound thought ; the fine balance of truth in observing with the imaginative faculty in modifying the objects observed ; and above all the original gift of spreading the tone , the atmosphere ...
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To the faculty by which I had characterized Milton , we should confine the term imagination ; while the other would be contra - distinguished as fancy . Now were it once fully ascertained , that this division is no less grounded in ...
To the faculty by which I had characterized Milton , we should confine the term imagination ; while the other would be contra - distinguished as fancy . Now were it once fully ascertained , that this division is no less grounded in ...
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