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Side 76
... picture can be formed in the mind to realize the description . Without this , every effort of imagination must fail in the effect ; and I be- lieve most writers turn with disgust from this part of the adventures of Gulliver . The voyage ...
... picture can be formed in the mind to realize the description . Without this , every effort of imagination must fail in the effect ; and I be- lieve most writers turn with disgust from this part of the adventures of Gulliver . The voyage ...
Side 102
... picture . It is to depict nature and hold her up to view ; but there is no necessity to ex- hibit every thing in nature , or combine such actions as might possibly have existed together , though poetically inconsistent with each other ...
... picture . It is to depict nature and hold her up to view ; but there is no necessity to ex- hibit every thing in nature , or combine such actions as might possibly have existed together , though poetically inconsistent with each other ...
Side 103
... picture . The fairest mark indeed of a vigorous imagination is the power of displaying all the nice and dis- criminating features of the human character and passions . It shews penetration to observe them , fancy in being able to depict ...
... picture . The fairest mark indeed of a vigorous imagination is the power of displaying all the nice and dis- criminating features of the human character and passions . It shews penetration to observe them , fancy in being able to depict ...
Side 116
... picture , " the pictured walls ; " from cavern , " the cavern'd roofs , & c . 6th . The soul of poetry is particularizing and bringing to view the minute circumstances which give " a local habitation and a name " to the subject , and ...
... picture , " the pictured walls ; " from cavern , " the cavern'd roofs , & c . 6th . The soul of poetry is particularizing and bringing to view the minute circumstances which give " a local habitation and a name " to the subject , and ...
Side 117
... picture , that poetry often uses a peri- phrasis , rather than a plain and simple descrip- tion . Two lines of Virgil will give you a suf- ficient idea of this- " Depresso incipiet jam tum mihi taurus aratro 66 Ingemere , & sulco ...
... picture , that poetry often uses a peri- phrasis , rather than a plain and simple descrip- tion . Two lines of Virgil will give you a suf- ficient idea of this- " Depresso incipiet jam tum mihi taurus aratro 66 Ingemere , & sulco ...
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