The Spectator, Volume 5George Atherton Aitken G. Routledge, 1898 - English essays |
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Page 59
... ideas and we may add , it is this also that raises the little satisfaction we sometimes fina in the different sorts of false wit ; whether it consist in the affinity of letters , as in anagram , acrostic ; or of syllables , as in ...
... ideas and we may add , it is this also that raises the little satisfaction we sometimes fina in the different sorts of false wit ; whether it consist in the affinity of letters , as in anagram , acrostic ; or of syllables , as in ...
Page 60
... idea of it is , perhaps , made up of two or three simple ideas ; but when the poet represents it , he may either give us a more complex idea of it , or only raise in us such ideas as are most apt to affect the imagination . It may be ...
... idea of it is , perhaps , made up of two or three simple ideas ; but when the poet represents it , he may either give us a more complex idea of it , or only raise in us such ideas as are most apt to affect the imagination . It may be ...
Page 62
... ideas arises in the imagination , and consequently despatches a flow of animal spirits to its proper trace , these spirits , in the violence of their motion , run not only into the trace to which they were more particularly directed ...
... ideas arises in the imagination , and consequently despatches a flow of animal spirits to its proper trace , these spirits , in the violence of their motion , run not only into the trace to which they were more particularly directed ...
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