English Critical Texts: 16th Century to 20th CenturyDennis Joseph Enright, Ernst De Chickera Oxford University Press, 1962 - 398 pages |
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... imagination , the former may be considered as mind contemplating the relations borne by one thought to another ... imagination is the 15 perception of the value of those quantities , both separately and as a whole . Reason respects the ...
... imagination , the former may be considered as mind contemplating the relations borne by one thought to another ... imagination is the 15 perception of the value of those quantities , both separately and as a whole . Reason respects the ...
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... imagination is most delightful , but it is 860 alleged that that of reason is more useful . Let us examine , as the grounds of this distinction , what is here meant by utility . Pleasure or good , in a general sense , is that which the ...
... imagination is most delightful , but it is 860 alleged that that of reason is more useful . Let us examine , as the grounds of this distinction , what is here meant by utility . Pleasure or good , in a general sense , is that which the ...
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... Imagination . What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not -for I have the same Idea of all our Passions as of Love : 5 they are all , in their sublime , creative of essential Beauty . In a word ...
... Imagination . What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not -for I have the same Idea of all our Passions as of Love : 5 they are all , in their sublime , creative of essential Beauty . In a word ...
Contents
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy | 50 |
An Essay on Criticism III | 111 |
Preface to Shakespeare | 131 |
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