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" ... images in so clear a light, that it is impossible to be blind to them. The works of Milton cannot be comprehended or enjoyed, unless the mind of the reader co-operate with that of the writer. He does not paint a finished picture, or play for a mere... "
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors ... - Page 1319
by Samuel Austin Allibone - 1882
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Protestant Union: A Treatise of True Religion, Heresy, Schism, Toleration ...

John Milton - 1826 - 126 pages
...exception, dignified by a sobriety and greatness of mind to which we know not where to look for a parallel. It would, indeed, be scarcely safe to draw any decided inferences as to the character of a writer, from passages directly egotistical. But the qualities which we have ascribed to Milton, though perhaps most...
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Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best ..., Volumes 1-2

1835 - 932 pages
...of the reader co-operate with that of the ЛУП ter. He does not paint a finished picture, or play for a mere passive listener. He sketches, and leaves...key-note, and expects his hearer to make out the melody. We often hear of the magical influence of poetry. The expression in general means nothing ; but, applied...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 pages
...exception, dignified by a sobriety and greatness of mind to which we know not where to look for a parallel. It would indeed be scarcely safe to draw any decided...inferences, as to the character of a writer, from passages directly egotistical. But the qualities which we have ascribed to Milton, though perhaps most...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...mind of the reader cooperate with that of the writer. He does not paint a finished picture, or play for a mere passive listener. He sketches, and leaves others to fill up the outline. He VOL, I. 3 strikes the key-note, and expects his hearer to make out the melody. We often hear of the...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...play for a mere passive listener. He sketches, and leaves others to fill up the outline. He VOL I. 3 strikes the key-note, and expects his hearer to make out the melody. We often hear of the magical influence of poetry. The expression in general means nothing ; but, applied...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 390 pages
...mind of the reader co-operate with that of the writer. He does not paint a finished picture, or play for a mere passive listener. He sketches, and leaves...key-note, and expects his hearer to make out the melody. We often hear of the magical influence of poetry. The expression in general means nothing; but, applied...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 1

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...mind i: the reader co-operate with that of the wriier. He does not paint a finished picture, or play for a mere passive listener. He sketches, and leaves...He strikes the key-note, and expects his hearer to muh out the melody. We often hear of the magical influence o! poetry. The expression in general mean«...
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Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 6

Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 564 pages
...electrifies the mind through conductors, — that he sketches, and leaves others to fill up the outline, — strikes the key-note, and expects his hearer to make out the melody ; — and, in speaking of the Allegro and the Penseroso, that "these poems differ from others, as ottar...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...mind of the reader co-operata with that of the writer. He does not paint a finished picture, or play s old as the origin of parliamentary corruption in...counsellors of Charles the Second. Pitt was no los We often hear of the magical influence of poetry. The expression in general means nothing ; but, applied...
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Scenes and characters from the writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay. To ...

Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...not paint a finished picture, or play for a mere passive listener. He sketches, and leaves other^ lo fill up the outline. He strikes the key-note, and expects his hearer to make out the melody. We often hear of the magical influence of poetry. The expression in general means nothing ; but, applied...
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