Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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Page 25
... 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 , not ...
... 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 , not ...
Page 63
... reason- ableness of opinions . Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists , but we are geometricians only by chance . Our inter- course with intellectual nature is ...
... reason- ableness of opinions . Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists , but we are geometricians only by chance . Our inter- course with intellectual nature is ...
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... reason for imagining that he was more or less conversant with that family . The same year he published The Country Mouse and the City Mouse , to ridicule Dryden's Hind and Panther , in conjunction with Mr. Montague . There is a story of ...
... reason for imagining that he was more or less conversant with that family . The same year he published The Country Mouse and the City Mouse , to ridicule Dryden's Hind and Panther , in conjunction with Mr. Montague . There is a story of ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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Lives of the English Poets: The Prior Congreve, Blackmore and Pope Samuel Johnson No preview available - 2003 |
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