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As well might a literary production rest its pretensions upon the mere beauties of the style . If the composition neither please the imagination , nor inform the understanding , to what pur- pose is its being written in elegant language ...
As well might a literary production rest its pretensions upon the mere beauties of the style . If the composition neither please the imagination , nor inform the understanding , to what pur- pose is its being written in elegant language ...
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Whence arises this strange contrariety be- tween the imagination and the faculties of man ? " With regard to the first part of this passage , we must ob- serve that nothing is more universally acknowleged than that ideas of pain and ...
Whence arises this strange contrariety be- tween the imagination and the faculties of man ? " With regard to the first part of this passage , we must ob- serve that nothing is more universally acknowleged than that ideas of pain and ...
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Mr. Smith imagines that this superstition was the result of natural causes ; and that the ardent imagination of a Greek easily converted a village - girl , shaded by the gloom of a forest , into a vision of one of these awful beings .
Mr. Smith imagines that this superstition was the result of natural causes ; and that the ardent imagination of a Greek easily converted a village - girl , shaded by the gloom of a forest , into a vision of one of these awful beings .
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| Title | The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal Volumes 1215-1247 of Early English newspapers Volumes 384-432 of English literary periodicals |
| Contributors | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths |
| Publisher | R. Griffiths, 1821 |
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