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... the cold, restraining judgment and even from Rapin's conception of a "
Judgment proportion 'd to the Wit " in strength in order to " moderate the heat and
govern the natural Fury " of the imagination.6 For Johnson the purely intellectual
faculty ...
... the cold, restraining judgment and even from Rapin's conception of a "
Judgment proportion 'd to the Wit " in strength in order to " moderate the heat and
govern the natural Fury " of the imagination.6 For Johnson the purely intellectual
faculty ...
Page 101
His very language is such that one cannot always separate the rational from the
imaginative strains. A passage in the Life of Milton on the effect of the imagination
in that poet illustrates the point. I shall italicize those words and phrases which ...
His very language is such that one cannot always separate the rational from the
imaginative strains. A passage in the Life of Milton on the effect of the imagination
in that poet illustrates the point. I shall italicize those words and phrases which ...
Page 288
... is used to condemn imaginative work it must be the result of a majority opinion,
not merely the judgment of one man. Many condemn the nights of heroic poetry
as bombast. Such critics had better doubt their own judgment than that of Homer,
...
... is used to condemn imaginative work it must be the result of a majority opinion,
not merely the judgment of one man. Many condemn the nights of heroic poetry
as bombast. Such critics had better doubt their own judgment than that of Homer,
...
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The Beggars Opera 14 | 14 |
The Authenticity of Anna Sewards Published Correspondence | 50 |
Suggestions toward a Genealogy of The Man of Feeling Ju | 62 |
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| Title | Studies in the Literature of the Augustan Age: Essays Collected in Honor of Arthur Ellicott Case Publication (Augustan Reprint Society) |
| Editor | Richard Charles Boys |
| Publisher | Augustan Reprint Society, 1952 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 367 pages |
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