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... knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some hints of criticism very justly conceived and happily expressed ...
... knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some hints of criticism very justly conceived and happily expressed ...
Page 73
... knowledge of external nature , and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes , are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind . Whether we provide for action or conversation , whether we wish to be useful or ...
... knowledge of external nature , and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes , are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind . Whether we provide for action or conversation , whether we wish to be useful or ...
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... knowledge than by the silent progress of solitary reading . " I do not suppose that he despised books , or inten- tionally neglected them ; but that he was carried out , by the impetuosity of his genius , to more vivid and speedy ...
... knowledge than by the silent progress of solitary reading . " I do not suppose that he despised books , or inten- tionally neglected them ; but that he was carried out , by the impetuosity of his genius , to more vivid and speedy ...
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