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... mean specimens of metaphysical The stanzas against knowledge pro- poetry . duce little conviction . In those which are in- tended to exalt the human faculties , reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging , not of things ...
... mean specimens of metaphysical The stanzas against knowledge pro- poetry . duce little conviction . In those which are in- tended to exalt the human faculties , reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging , not of things ...
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... mean ; for , gentle year , Although I fear There's of this caution little need , Yet , gentle year , take heed How thou dost make Such a mistake ; Such love I mean alone As by thy cruel predecessors ha : been shown ; For though I have ...
... mean ; for , gentle year , Although I fear There's of this caution little need , Yet , gentle year , take heed How thou dost make Such a mistake ; Such love I mean alone As by thy cruel predecessors ha : been shown ; For though I have ...
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... mean in the materials . Yet surely those verses are not without a just claim to praise ; of which it may be said with truth , no man but Cowley could have written them . er of human genius to dignify . The miracle of creation , however ...
... mean in the materials . Yet surely those verses are not without a just claim to praise ; of which it may be said with truth , no man but Cowley could have written them . er of human genius to dignify . The miracle of creation , however ...
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... means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright and gay , but which time has been continually steal ...
... means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright and gay , but which time has been continually steal ...
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... means , such of his father , homorton , in Buck- inghamshire , he lived five years , in which time he is said to have read all the Greek and Latin writers . With what limitations this universality is to be understood , who shall in ...
... means , such of his father , homorton , in Buck- inghamshire , he lived five years , in which time he is said to have read all the Greek and Latin writers . With what limitations this universality is to be understood , who shall in ...
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