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If it is a fiction , made up of what we wish things to be , and fancy that they are because we wish them so , there is no other nor better reality . Ariosto has described the loves of Angelica and Medoro : but was not Medoro ...
If it is a fiction , made up of what we wish things to be , and fancy that they are because we wish them so , there is no other nor better reality . Ariosto has described the loves of Angelica and Medoro : but was not Medoro ...
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The imagination , by thus embodying and turning them to shape , gives an obvious relief to the indistinct and importunate cravings of the will . We do not wish the thing to be so ; but we wish it to appear such as it is .
The imagination , by thus embodying and turning them to shape , gives an obvious relief to the indistinct and importunate cravings of the will . We do not wish the thing to be so ; but we wish it to appear such as it is .
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Dr Johnson makes it his praise , that he wrote ' no line which dying he would wish to blot ' . Perhaps a better proof of his honest simplicity , and inoffensive goodness of disposition , would be that he wrote no line which any other ...
Dr Johnson makes it his praise , that he wrote ' no line which dying he would wish to blot ' . Perhaps a better proof of his honest simplicity , and inoffensive goodness of disposition , would be that he wrote no line which any other ...
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