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Page 174
... imagination was , it was always applied to the world outside it , and it was always moved by certain abstract ideas , the ideas of greatness and nobility , kingship , ancient families , and youth . The young men who composed the Young ...
... imagination was , it was always applied to the world outside it , and it was always moved by certain abstract ideas , the ideas of greatness and nobility , kingship , ancient families , and youth . The young men who composed the Young ...
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... imagination , and so long as he remains within the comic and satiric or the mel- odramatic he forces us to share the hallucination . His defects are many and yet scarcely matter . He was a great original . He owed something , in his ...
... imagination , and so long as he remains within the comic and satiric or the mel- odramatic he forces us to share the hallucination . His defects are many and yet scarcely matter . He was a great original . He owed something , in his ...
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... imagination of Disraeli . Yet in Alton Locke , his fictitious autobiography of a Chartist working man , he produced something unique in his time . Kingsley was a very good descriptive writer , though not of the highest class , and his ...
... imagination of Disraeli . Yet in Alton Locke , his fictitious autobiography of a Chartist working man , he produced something unique in his time . Kingsley was a very good descriptive writer , though not of the highest class , and his ...
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THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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