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54 Cards in this Set
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"All seasons..." |
"All seasons shall be sweet to thee" — Frost At Midnight Sibilance |
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"When the last rook..." |
"When the last rook beat its straight path along the dusky air... cross'd the mighty Orb's dilated glory, while thou stood'st gazing" — Lime Tree Bower my Prison |
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"Silent with..." |
"Silent with swimming sense..." — Lime Tree Bower My Prison Sibilance |
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"The imagination enabled..." |
"The imagination enabled a man to... find a kind of company in everything he sees." |
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"Make the sphere..." |
"Make the sphere of innocent pleasures as wide as possible so that he may retire into them with safety." |
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"To see a world in a..." |
"To see a world in a Grain of Sand, and a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and Eternity in an hour." |
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"A robin red..." |
"A robin red breast in a cage, puts all Heaven in a rage." |
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"A dog..." |
"A dog starved", "A horse misus'd", "hunted hare" |
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The mind could... |
The mind could "create", be the "creator" and "receiver of both" - Wordsworth |
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Scientists have... |
"Scientists have acquired new and almost unlimited powers, they command the thunders of heaven..." - m Waldman Victor describes the professors words as the "words of fate — enounced to destroy me" |
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"The desire of a..." |
"the desire of a moth for a star" — Percy Shelley |
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"Less than everything...." |
"Less than everything cannot satisfy man." — William Blake |
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"A determination to..." |
"A determination to idealise the natural scene as a site where the individual could find freedom from social laws." |
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"Pleasant sunshine..." |
"Pleasant sunshine, pure air... restored me." |
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"Nature ne'er..." |
"Nature ne'er deserts the wise and pure." |
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"Struck..." |
"Struck with deep joy." |
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"It clings to the mind..." |
"It [knowledge] clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen rock. I wished sometimes to shake it off with all thought and feeling." |
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"Nothing is more painful..." |
"Nothing is more painful to the human mind, after the feelings... deprives the soul" |
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"No one can conceive..." |
"No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards." |
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"The state of my mind..." |
"The state of my mind preyed upon my health." |
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"I thirsted..." |
"I thirsted for the moment", but instead it "hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures" |
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"You may deem me Romantic..." |
"You may deem me Romantic my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend." |
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"I grasped his hand..." |
"I grasped his hand, and in a moment forgot my horror and misfortune; I felt suddenly, and for the first time during many months, calm and serene joy" |
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"The pole..." |
"The pole is a seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight" |
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"The sun..." |
"The sun diffusing a perpetual splendor" |
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"A determination to..." |
"A determination to idealise the natural scene as a site where the individual could find freedom from social laws." |
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"Pleasant sunshine..." |
"Pleasant sunshine, pure air... restored me." |
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"Nature ne'er..." |
"Nature ne'er deserts the wise and pure." |
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"Struck..." |
"Struck with deep joy." |
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"Being necessarily performed..." |
"Being necessarily performed with the passion of Hope, (science) was poetical." — Coleridge |
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"If the imagination..." |
"If the imagination dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate, it is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead." — Coleridge |
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"This defiant attitude..." |
"This defiant attitude toward limits also made writers impatient with the conceptions of literacy they inherited from the past." |
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British Critic- Frankenstein |
• a "diseased and wandering imagination, which has stepped out of all legitimate bounds." • a female = "an aggravation of that which is the prevailing fault of the novel" |
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"It was the shared habit..." |
"It was the shared habit of Romantic scientists and poets both to put as much stock in the process of discovery as in discovery itself." - Molly Young |
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"It clings to the mind..." |
"It [knowledge] clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen rock. I wished sometimes to shake it off with all thought and feeling." |
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"Nothing is more painful..." |
"Nothing is more painful to the human mind, after the feelings... deprives the soul" |
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"No one can conceive..." |
"No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards." |
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"The state of my mind..." |
"The state of my mind preyed upon my health." |
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"I thirsted..." |
"I thirsted for the moment", but instead it "hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures" |
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"You may deem me Romantic..." |
"You may deem me Romantic my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend." |
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"I grasped his hand..." |
"I grasped his hand, and in a moment forgot my horror and misfortune; I felt suddenly, and for the first time during many months, calm and serene joy" |
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"The pole..." |
"The pole is a seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight" |
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"The sun..." |
"The sun diffusing a perpetual splendor" |
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Pleasures of the Imagination |
Joseph Addison, 1712 |
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Pleasures of the Imagination |
Joseph Addison, 1712 |
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This lime tree |
1797 |
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Pleasures of the Imagination |
Joseph Addison, 1712 |
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This lime tree |
1797 |
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Frost |
1798 |
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Pleasures of the Imagination |
Joseph Addison, 1712 |
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This lime tree |
1797 |
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Frost |
1798 |
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Auguries of Innocence |
William Blake 1803, published in 1863 |
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Frankenstein |
1818 |
