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" To paint things as they are, requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility t reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. "
general Report on Public Instruction in the lower Provinces of the Bengal ... - Page 41
by JOHN GRAY - 1857
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The Annual Register, Volume 22

History - 1796 - 690 pages
...The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life, did not fatiate his appetite of greatnefs. To paint things as' they are, requires a minute attention, and employs the memory tather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to fport in the wide regions of poffibility ; reality was...
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 47

Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1779 - 510 pages
...The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life, , .did not fatiate his appetite of greatnefs. To paint things as .they are, requires a minute attention,...memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to fport in the .wide regions of poffibility ; reality was a fcene too narrow for his mind. He fent his...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...The appearances of nature, and the .occurrences. of life, did not fatiate his appetite of greatnefs. To paint things as they are,. requires a. minute attention,...memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to fport in the wade regions of poffibility; reality was a fcene too narrow for his mind. He fe.nt his...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal, Volume 61

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life, did not fatiatc his appetite of greatnefs. To paint things as they are, requires a minute attention,...memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to fport in the wide regions of poffibility ; reality was a fcene too narrow, for his mind. He fent his...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal, Volume 61

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life, did not fatiatc his appetite of greatnefs. To paint things as they are, requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. Mikoii'a delight was to fport in the wide regions of poffibility ; reality was a fcene too narrow,...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 61

Books - 1780 - 596 pages
...occurrences of life, did not fatiate his appetite of greacnefs. To paint things as they are, re' quires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. ' Milton's delight was to fporl in the wide regions of poflibility ; reality was a fcene too narrow for his mind. He fent his...
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Annual Register, Volume 22

Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...occurrences of life, did not fatiate his appetite of greatnefs. To paint things as they are, re- ' quires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was te . fport in the wide regions of poflibility; reality was a fcene too narrow for his mind. He fent...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life!, did not fariate his appetite of greatnefs, To paint things as they are, requires a minute attention,...memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to fport in the wide regions of pof£bility ; reality was a fc6ne too narrow for his mind. He fent his...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 478 pages
...occurrences of life, did not fatiate his appetite of greatnefs. To paint things as they are, re*• quires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to Iport in the wide regions of pofiibility; reality was a fcene too narrow for. his mind. He fent his...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life, did not fatiate his appetite of greatnefs. To paint things as they are, requires a minute attention,...memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to fport in the wide regions of poffibility ; reality was a fcenc too narrow for his mind. He fent his...
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