Delphine, Volume 1J. Mawman, 1803 |
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Page ii
... imagination and a quick sensibility are requisite to enable an author to identify himself with all the various situations of life , and to preserve on all occasions that purity and simplicity of nature without which nothing can be great ...
... imagination and a quick sensibility are requisite to enable an author to identify himself with all the various situations of life , and to preserve on all occasions that purity and simplicity of nature without which nothing can be great ...
Page iv
... illusion may not be destroyed ; but works which excite curiosity merely by the invention of incidents , captivate only men of that sort of imagination which authorises the the saying that the eyes are always chil dren . iv PREFACE .
... illusion may not be destroyed ; but works which excite curiosity merely by the invention of incidents , captivate only men of that sort of imagination which authorises the the saying that the eyes are always chil dren . iv PREFACE .
Page ix
... imagination can ex- : cite . Genius will never speak better than nature , but it will speak like her even in invented situations ; while the man of ordinary mind can feel only the impres- . sions which arise from his own situation ...
... imagination can ex- : cite . Genius will never speak better than nature , but it will speak like her even in invented situations ; while the man of ordinary mind can feel only the impres- . sions which arise from his own situation ...
Page xii
... the mind is excited by new combinations , and the imagination is animated by the bold flights it condemns as much as by those it approves . In studying these works , works , our authors might succeed in adapt- ing to xii PREFACE .
... the mind is excited by new combinations , and the imagination is animated by the bold flights it condemns as much as by those it approves . In studying these works , works , our authors might succeed in adapt- ing to xii PREFACE .
Page xv
... imagination , and abridged his life , has infosed into his detached thoughts , the germs of a number of ideas which succeed ing writers have developed . The great ! men men of the age of Louis XIV . possessed therefore PREFACE . XV.
... imagination , and abridged his life , has infosed into his detached thoughts , the germs of a number of ideas which succeed ing writers have developed . The great ! men men of the age of Louis XIV . possessed therefore PREFACE . XV.
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