Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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... Nature , which is the greatest beauty . We do not always know our own motives . I am not certain whether it was not rather the difficulty which he found in exhibiting the genuine operations of the heart , than a servile submission to an ...
... Nature , which is the greatest beauty . We do not always know our own motives . I am not certain whether it was not rather the difficulty which he found in exhibiting the genuine operations of the heart , than a servile submission to an ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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