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" He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and subjects of fancy ; and by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 275
by Samuel Johnson - 1840
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The Indicatior: a Miscellany for the Fields and the Fireside, Volumes 1-2

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 540 pages
...in upon his eyes. " He loved," as Johnson says (in that strain of music, inspired by tenderness), " fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted...palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens." If Collins had had a better constitution, I do not believe that he would have written his projected...
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The Indicator: a Miscellany for the Fields and the Fireside. In ..., Volumes 1-2

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 544 pages
...in upon his eyes. " He loved," as Johnson says (in that strain of music, inspired by tenderness), " fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted...palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens." If Collins had had a better constitution, I do not believe that he would have written his projected...
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The Poetical Works of William Motherwell

William Motherwell - 1847 - 338 pages
...would have afforded an inexhaustible supply of those materials in which his genius most delighted. " He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he...palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens." — (Johnson.) His ode on " THE PASSIONS," shows how familiar his mind was with those terrible images,...
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The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 1

Thomas Medwin - 1847 - 408 pages
...of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular tradition. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he...palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens. Milton, too, in early life, lived in a similar dream-land, was fond of high romance and gothic diableries...
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 726 pages
...had employed his i runil (says his biographer) chiefly upon works of fiction and subjects of fancy. thou burr! vile thing, let loose, Or I will shake...Thy love ? out, tawny Tartar, out ! Out, loathed m I am equally incredulous on the subject of the origin of the TEMPEST in an older English play, preserved...
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Comedies. Two gentlemen of Verona

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 760 pages
...biographer) chiefly upon works of fiction and subjects of fancy. He loved fairies, genii, gianU. i\nd t you to-day promis'd to tell me of? Bass. 'Tis not...estate, By something showing a more swelling port I am equally incredulous on the subject of the origin of the TEMPEST in an older English play, preserved...
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The Poetical Works of W. Collins

William Collins - 1848 - 158 pages
...habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only...and the novelty of extravagance, were always desired by him, but were not always attained. Yet, as diligence is nevei wholly lost, if his efforts sometimes...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. in Twelve Volumes: With All ...

Walter Scott - 1848 - 772 pages
...habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only...of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Blysian gardens." Fen Lucy loves to tread enchanted strand, And thread, like him, the maze of Fairy...
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The Poetical Works of William Motherwell

William Motherwell, James M'Conechy - 1849 - 516 pages
...warlike inrocation. As he rials in which his genius most delighted. ' He loved fairies, genii, pants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders...palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens ' — (Johnson). His ode on ' Til K PASSIONS ' shows how familiar his mind was with those terrible...
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The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of Each

William Collins, Thomas Gray - 1852 - 332 pages
...habits of thought, was emi nently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only...traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters j he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces,...
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