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... kind of absentee landlord . But to contemporaries Newton offered a far more enticing pros- pect . His description of infinite space as ' the sensorium of the godhead ' was a vibrant metaphor ; and from this it was a short step to ...
... kind of absentee landlord . But to contemporaries Newton offered a far more enticing pros- pect . His description of infinite space as ' the sensorium of the godhead ' was a vibrant metaphor ; and from this it was a short step to ...
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... kind of vocabulary through which he could express his deepest intuitions more truthfully and exactly than in the language of philosophic or moralistic statement ' . The basis of Thomson's style is description . He does not dwell on the ...
... kind of vocabulary through which he could express his deepest intuitions more truthfully and exactly than in the language of philosophic or moralistic statement ' . The basis of Thomson's style is description . He does not dwell on the ...
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... kind than ' How blest are Shepherds ' and Comus's lively ditty , ' Your Hay is mow'd ' . King Arthur is an unfashionable entertainment , with its vigorous patriotism , its garish transforma- tion scenes and its kaleidoscopic moods ; it ...
... kind than ' How blest are Shepherds ' and Comus's lively ditty , ' Your Hay is mow'd ' . King Arthur is an unfashionable entertainment , with its vigorous patriotism , its garish transforma- tion scenes and its kaleidoscopic moods ; it ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Landscape of the Age | 5 |
The Shape of Society | 7 |
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