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... Reason , are no mean specimens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those which are in- tended to exalt the human faculties , Reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging ...
... Reason , are no mean specimens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those which are in- tended to exalt the human faculties , Reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging ...
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... reason of that success is , in my opinion , this , that Shakespeare and Fletcher have written to the genius of the age and nation in which they lived ; for though nature , as he objects , is the same in all places , and reason too the ...
... reason of that success is , in my opinion , this , that Shakespeare and Fletcher have written to the genius of the age and nation in which they lived ; for though nature , as he objects , is the same in all places , and reason too the ...
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... reason could not be very clear , he substituted And spite of pride , in erring reason's spite . To such oversights will the most vigorous mind be liable , when it is employed at once upon argument and poetry . The second and third ...
... reason could not be very clear , he substituted And spite of pride , in erring reason's spite . To such oversights will the most vigorous mind be liable , when it is employed at once upon argument and poetry . The second and third ...
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