Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenOctagon Books, 1967 - 568 páginas |
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... 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 of ...
... 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 of ...
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... reasons for incredulity will readily Occur . This faculty of seeing things out of sight is local and commonly useless . It is a breach of the common order of things , without any visible reason or perceptible benefit . ' Works , ix ...
... reasons for incredulity will readily Occur . This faculty of seeing things out of sight is local and commonly useless . It is a breach of the common order of things , without any visible reason or perceptible benefit . ' Works , ix ...
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... reason of that success is , in my opinion , this , that Shakespeare and Fletcher have written to the genius of the age and nation in which they lived ; for though nature , as he objects , is the same in all places , and reason too the ...
... reason of that success is , in my opinion , this , that Shakespeare and Fletcher have written to the genius of the age and nation in which they lived ; for though nature , as he objects , is the same in all places , and reason too the ...
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