The Critical Works of John Dennis, Volume 1Johns Hopkins Press, 1939 - Criticism |
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Page 246
... Power of exciting Passion , is Genius in a Poet ; to the raising of which , Religion , as we have shewn above , gives a very great Advantage . The Second Thing is Art , by which I mean , those Rules , and that Method , which capacitate ...
... Power of exciting Passion , is Genius in a Poet ; to the raising of which , Religion , as we have shewn above , gives a very great Advantage . The Second Thing is Art , by which I mean , those Rules , and that Method , which capacitate ...
Page 362
... Power , we know not how far and how soon they may hurt us . But further , nothing is so terrible as the Wrath of infinite Power , because nothing is so unavoidable as the Vengeance design'd by it . There is no flying nor lying hid from ...
... Power , we know not how far and how soon they may hurt us . But further , nothing is so terrible as the Wrath of infinite Power , because nothing is so unavoidable as the Vengeance design'd by it . There is no flying nor lying hid from ...
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... power of imagination . Moreover , when he describes " the piercing Force of those aspiring Thoughts , which are able to pass the Bounds that circumscribe the Universe " ( 1 , 202 ) , although he connects this power with a kind of reason ...
... power of imagination . Moreover , when he describes " the piercing Force of those aspiring Thoughts , which are able to pass the Bounds that circumscribe the Universe " ( 1 , 202 ) , although he connects this power with a kind of reason ...
Contents
Preface to The Passion of Byblis 1692 | 1 |
The Impartial Critick 1693 | 11 |
Preface to The Court of Death 1695 | 42 |
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