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What a force of imagination is there in this last expression ! What an idea it conveys of the size of that hugest of created beings , as if it shrunk up the ocean to a stream , and took up the sea in its nostrils as a very little thing ...
What a force of imagination is there in this last expression ! What an idea it conveys of the size of that hugest of created beings , as if it shrunk up the ocean to a stream , and took up the sea in its nostrils as a very little thing ...
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Dryden's plays are better than Pope could have written ; for though he does not go out of himself by the force of imagination , he goes out of himself by the force of common - places and rhetorical dialogue .
Dryden's plays are better than Pope could have written ; for though he does not go out of himself by the force of imagination , he goes out of himself by the force of common - places and rhetorical dialogue .
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The most opposite kinds and remote trains of feeling gradually go to enrich the same sentiment ; and in our love of nature there is all the force of individual attachment , combined with the most airy abstraction .
The most opposite kinds and remote trains of feeling gradually go to enrich the same sentiment ; and in our love of nature there is all the force of individual attachment , combined with the most airy abstraction .
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