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... nature for 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 for 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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... nature is necessary ; our speculations upon matter are voluntary , and at leisure . Physiological learning is of ... nature to speculations upon life ; but the innovators whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to nature . They ...
... nature is necessary ; our speculations upon matter are voluntary , and at leisure . Physiological learning is of ... nature to speculations upon life ; but the innovators whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to nature . They ...
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... natural , observes , " that there is a way of deviating from nature , by bombast or tumour , which soars above nature , and enlarges images beyond their real bulk ; by affectation , which forsakes nature in quest of something unsuitable ...
... natural , observes , " that there is a way of deviating from nature , by bombast or tumour , which soars above nature , and enlarges images beyond their real bulk ; by affectation , which forsakes nature in quest of something unsuitable ...
Contents
WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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