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He gives us the shape , the colour , the sound , the smell , the taste ; he counts the numbers ; he measures the size . His similes are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets , and especially of Milton , they are ...
He gives us the shape , the colour , the sound , the smell , the taste ; he counts the numbers ; he measures the size . His similes are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets , and especially of Milton , they are ...
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His works prove be- yond all contradiction , that his understanding was strong , his taste pure , and his sense of the ridiculous exquisitely keen . This is strange - and yet the strangest is behind . There is no reason whatever to ...
His works prove be- yond all contradiction , that his understanding was strong , his taste pure , and his sense of the ridiculous exquisitely keen . This is strange - and yet the strangest is behind . There is no reason whatever to ...
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Thus liberty , partially , indeed , and transiently , revisited Italy ; and with liberty came commerce and empire , science and taste , all the comforts and all the ornaments of life . The crusades , from which the inhabitants of other ...
Thus liberty , partially , indeed , and transiently , revisited Italy ; and with liberty came commerce and empire , science and taste , all the comforts and all the ornaments of life . The crusades , from which the inhabitants of other ...
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Such are the opposite errors which men commit , when their morality is not a science but a taste ; when they abandon eternal principles for accidental associations . We have illustrated our meaning by an instance taken from history .
Such are the opposite errors which men commit , when their morality is not a science but a taste ; when they abandon eternal principles for accidental associations . We have illustrated our meaning by an instance taken from history .
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The rude warriors who had subdued them consoled themselves for their intellectual inferiority , by remarking that knowledge and taste seemed only to make men atheists , cowards , and slaves . The distinction long continued to be ...
The rude warriors who had subdued them consoled themselves for their intellectual inferiority , by remarking that knowledge and taste seemed only to make men atheists , cowards , and slaves . The distinction long continued to be ...
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