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Pagina 107
... poetical pleasure must be such as human imagination can at least conceive , and poetical terrors such as human strength and fortitude may combat . The good and evil of eternity are too ponderous for the wings of wit ;, the mind sinks ...
... poetical pleasure must be such as human imagination can at least conceive , and poetical terrors such as human strength and fortitude may combat . The good and evil of eternity are too ponderous for the wings of wit ;, the mind sinks ...
Pagina 173
... poetical power . His Sacred Poems do not please like some of his other works ; but before the fatal fifty - five , had he written on the same subjects , his success would hardly have been better . It has been the frequent lamentation of ...
... poetical power . His Sacred Poems do not please like some of his other works ; but before the fatal fifty - five , had he written on the same subjects , his success would hardly have been better . It has been the frequent lamentation of ...
Pagina 356
... poetical justice , which is always one of his favourite principles . " Tis certainly the duty of every tragic poet , by an exact distribution of a poetical justice , to imitate the Divine dis- pensation and to inculcate a particular ...
... poetical justice , which is always one of his favourite principles . " Tis certainly the duty of every tragic poet , by an exact distribution of a poetical justice , to imitate the Divine dis- pensation and to inculcate a particular ...
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ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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