The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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Page 37
... imagination brooding over ' airy nothing , ' or over a favourite object , where ' love's golden shaft hath killed ... imagination , of solitude and melancholy musing born , ' so it may be best drawn from the imagination . Millamant , in ...
... imagination brooding over ' airy nothing , ' or over a favourite object , where ' love's golden shaft hath killed ... imagination , of solitude and melancholy musing born , ' so it may be best drawn from the imagination . Millamant , in ...
Page 118
... imagination that ever existed , and wrote the oddest mixture of poetry and prose . He does not appear to have taken advantage of any thing in actual nature , from one end of his works to the other ; and yet , throughout all his works ...
... imagination that ever existed , and wrote the oddest mixture of poetry and prose . He does not appear to have taken advantage of any thing in actual nature , from one end of his works to the other ; and yet , throughout all his works ...
Page 322
... imagination , but of the want of it , that is , to the predominance of the mere understanding or dialectic faculty over the imaginative and the sensitive . It is in fact poetry degenerating at every step into prose , sentiment ...
... imagination , but of the want of it , that is , to the predominance of the mere understanding or dialectic faculty over the imaginative and the sensitive . It is in fact poetry degenerating at every step into prose , sentiment ...
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