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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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Judging under this impression , I did not hesitate to declare my full conviction , that the consummate judgement of Shakspeare , not only in the general construction , but in all the detail , of his dramas impressed me with greater ...
Judging under this impression , I did not hesitate to declare my full conviction , that the consummate judgement of Shakspeare , not only in the general construction , but in all the detail , of his dramas impressed me with greater ...
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The impression on the audience in general was sudden and evident : and a number of enlightened and highly educated individuals , who at different times afterwards addressed me on the subject , expressed their wonder , that truth so ...
The impression on the audience in general was sudden and evident : and a number of enlightened and highly educated individuals , who at different times afterwards addressed me on the subject , expressed their wonder , that truth so ...
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It was not however the freedom from false taste , whether as to common defects , or to those more properly his own , which made so unusual an impression on my feelings immediately , and subsequently on my judgement .
It was not however the freedom from false taste , whether as to common defects , or to those more properly his own , which made so unusual an impression on my feelings immediately , and subsequently on my judgement .
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In poems , equally as in philosophic disquisitions , genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty , while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission .
In poems , equally as in philosophic disquisitions , genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty , while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission .
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