 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 209 páginas
...the memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; only imagination can travel, and delighted to form...trace the counsels of hell or accompany the choirs of heaven. But he could not be always in other worlds ; he 5 must sometimes revisit earth, and tell of... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1900 - 859 páginas
...delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery into worlds where only imagination can travel. . . . His great excellence is amplitude. . . . He had accustomed his imagination to unrestrained indulgence,... | |
 | 1901
...delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds...sentiment and action to superior beings; to trace Uie counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven. But he could not be always in other worlds... | |
 | 1906
...delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds...trace the counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven. But he could not be always in other worlds ; he must sometime? revisit earth, and tell of things... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 144 páginas
...delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds where only imagination can travel, and 10 delighted to form new modes of existence, and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings ;... | |
 | Roy Daniells - 1973 - 343 páginas
...delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds...trace the counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven. This is the portrait of a poet of restless vision, not the poet's poet of memory. Edward Young's... | |
 | Frank Brady, William Wimsatt - 1978 - 656 páginas
...delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery into worlds...and action to superior beings, to trace the counsels 56 of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven. But he could not be always in other worlds: he must... | |
 | Ian McGowan - 1990 - 584 páginas
...was to sport in the wide regions of possibility; reality was a 150 scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds...trace the counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven. But he could not be always in other worlds: he must sometimes 155 revisit earth, and tell of... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 452 páginas
...delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds...trace the counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven. But he could not be always in other worlds: he must sometimes revisit earth, and tell of things... | |
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To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery,... 
