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A debility and dimness of the imaginative power , and a consequent necessity of reliance on the immediate impressions of the senses , do , we well know , render the mind liable to superstition and fanaticism . Having a deficient portion ...
A debility and dimness of the imaginative power , and a consequent necessity of reliance on the immediate impressions of the senses , do , we well know , render the mind liable to superstition and fanaticism . Having a deficient portion ...
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While the former rest content between thought and reality , as it were in an intermundium of which their own living spirit supplies the substance , and their imagination the evervarying form ; the latter must impress their ...
While the former rest content between thought and reality , as it were in an intermundium of which their own living spirit supplies the substance , and their imagination the evervarying form ; the latter must impress their ...
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I'am well aware , that in advanced stages of literature , when there exist many and excellent models , a high degree of talent , combined with taste and judgement , and employed in works of imagination , will acquire for a man the name ...
I'am well aware , that in advanced stages of literature , when there exist many and excellent models , a high degree of talent , combined with taste and judgement , and employed in works of imagination , will acquire for a man the name ...
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... which uniting the charms of romance and history , keeps the imagination so constantly on the wing , and yet leaves so much for after reflection ; but likewise , and chiefly , because it is a compilation , which in the various ...
... which uniting the charms of romance and history , keeps the imagination so constantly on the wing , and yet leaves so much for after reflection ; but likewise , and chiefly , because it is a compilation , which in the various ...
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I have in imagination transferred to the future biographer the duty of contrasting Southey's fixed and well - earned fame , with the abuse and indefatigable hostility of his anonymous critics from his early youth to his ripest manhood .
I have in imagination transferred to the future biographer the duty of contrasting Southey's fixed and well - earned fame , with the abuse and indefatigable hostility of his anonymous critics from his early youth to his ripest manhood .
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