Reviews, Essays, and PoemsWard, Lock, 1899 - 661 páginas |
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... genius of the writer . We applaud our own sagacity and sensibility , and we are comforted . Yet , though we think that in the progress of nations towards refine- ment , the reasoning powers are improved at the expense of the imagination ...
... genius of the writer . We applaud our own sagacity and sensibility , and we are comforted . Yet , though we think that in the progress of nations towards refine- ment , the reasoning powers are improved at the expense of the imagination ...
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... genius which then existed were not either sufficiently numerous or sufficiently varied to enable any man to form a code of literature . To require that a critic should conceive classes of composition which had never existed , and then ...
... genius which then existed were not either sufficiently numerous or sufficiently varied to enable any man to form a code of literature . To require that a critic should conceive classes of composition which had never existed , and then ...
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... genius . Thus it was at Rome , till about a century before the Christian era : we read of abundance of consuls and dictators who won battles , and enjoyed triumphs ; but we look in vain for a single man of the first order of intellect ...
... genius . Thus it was at Rome , till about a century before the Christian era : we read of abundance of consuls and dictators who won battles , and enjoyed triumphs ; but we look in vain for a single man of the first order of intellect ...
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The Poetical Works of JOHN DRYDEN 2 vols University | 293 |
UTILITARIAN LOGIC AND POLITICS | 352 |
BENTHAMS DEFENCE OF MILL | 377 |
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