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... nature to speculations upon life ; but the innovators whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to nature . They seem to think , that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants , or the motions of the stars . Socrates was ...
... nature to speculations upon life ; but the innovators whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to nature . They seem to think , that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants , or the motions of the stars . Socrates was ...
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... Nature ? From such prepossessions Milton seems not to have been free . There prevailed in his time an opinion that the world was in its decay , and that we have had the misfortune to be produced in the decrepitude of Nature . It was ...
... Nature ? From such prepossessions Milton seems not to have been free . There prevailed in his time an opinion that the world was in its decay , and that we have had the misfortune to be produced in the decrepitude of Nature . It was ...
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... nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operations of intellect . Those , however , who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they ...
... nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operations of intellect . Those , however , who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they ...
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Introduction | 5 |
Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
Milton | 15 |
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