Elements of Criticism, Volume 1Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1967 - Criticism |
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Page 192
... imagination can give no aid . A stock or a stone may be imagined fenfible ; but a notion of this kind cannot be the foundation of punish- ment , fo long as the mind is conscious that it is an imagination merely without any reality . Of ...
... imagination can give no aid . A stock or a stone may be imagined fenfible ; but a notion of this kind cannot be the foundation of punish- ment , fo long as the mind is conscious that it is an imagination merely without any reality . Of ...
Page 337
... imagination , of all our faculties the most active , and not always at reft even in fleep , contributes more than any other cause to recruit the mind and re- ftore its vigor , by amufing us with gay and ludicrous images ; and when ...
... imagination , of all our faculties the most active , and not always at reft even in fleep , contributes more than any other cause to recruit the mind and re- ftore its vigor , by amufing us with gay and ludicrous images ; and when ...
Page 349
... imagination , compa- rifon may be employed with great fuccefs to put a subject in a ftrong point of view . A lively idea is formed of a man's courage , by likening it to that of a lion ; and eloquence is exalted in our imagination , by ...
... imagination , compa- rifon may be employed with great fuccefs to put a subject in a ftrong point of view . A lively idea is formed of a man's courage , by likening it to that of a lion ; and eloquence is exalted in our imagination , by ...
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