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Page 64
... imagination . The inanimate object is imagined to be a fenfible being , but without any conviction , even for a moment , that it really is fo . Ideas or fictions of i- magination have power to raise emotions in the mind * ; and when any ...
... imagination . The inanimate object is imagined to be a fenfible being , but without any conviction , even for a moment , that it really is fo . Ideas or fictions of i- magination have power to raise emotions in the mind * ; and when any ...
Page 65
... imagination , ab- stract terms are frequently perfonified . But this personification never goes farther than the imagination . Sed mihi vel Tellus optem prius ima dehifcat ; Vel pater omnipotens adigat me fulmine ad umbras , Pallentes ...
... imagination , ab- stract terms are frequently perfonified . But this personification never goes farther than the imagination . Sed mihi vel Tellus optem prius ima dehifcat ; Vel pater omnipotens adigat me fulmine ad umbras , Pallentes ...
Page 170
... imagination . Poetical ima- ges in a grave hiftory are intolerable ; and yet Strada's Belgic hiftory is full of poetical images . These being difcordant with the fubject , are difguftful ; and they have a still worse effect , by giving ...
... imagination . Poetical ima- ges in a grave hiftory are intolerable ; and yet Strada's Belgic hiftory is full of poetical images . These being difcordant with the fubject , are difguftful ; and they have a still worse effect , by giving ...
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abſtract action Æneid againſt agreeable allegory alſo appears arts beauty becauſe beſt betwixt caufe cauſe cenfured chap circumſtances compariſon compofition confidered connected courſe deſcription difagreeable diſtinguiſhed effect emotions employ'd Eneid epic poem epic poetry Euripides expreffed expreffion fame fenfe fenfible fhall fignify figure fimile firſt fize fome ftill fubject fuch garden grandeur hath himſelf hiſtory houſe Iliad imagination impreffion inftances inſtead itſelf ject language laſt leaſt lefs leſs meaſure metaphor mind moſt Mozambic mufic muſt nature neceffary obfcure obferved objects occafion ornament paffage paffion Paradife Loft pauſe perfon perfonification pleaſant pleaſe pleaſure preſent principal proper proportion purpoſe raiſed reaſon regularity reliſhed repreſentation repreſented reſemblance reſpect Richard II ſay ſcarce ſcene ſeen ſenſe Shakeſpear ſhall ſhould ſmall ſome ſpectator ſpeech ſtage ſtandard ſtate ſtill ſuch tafte taſte termed thee thefe theſe thing thoſe thou tion tragedy uſe word