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... Human Understanding — Theory of Ideas - Treatises on Govern- ment - Essay on Education ........ CHAPTER XII . THE WITS OF QUEEN ANNE'S REIGN . Artificial School - Pope's early Studies - Pope compared to Dryden -Essay on Criticism - Rape ...
... Human Understanding — Theory of Ideas - Treatises on Govern- ment - Essay on Education ........ CHAPTER XII . THE WITS OF QUEEN ANNE'S REIGN . Artificial School - Pope's early Studies - Pope compared to Dryden -Essay on Criticism - Rape ...
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... human speech , however rude its state or imperfect its development . Following this important rule , we shall find that all the primary ideas , and all the simpler objects , natural and artificial , are expressed in English by words so ...
... human speech , however rude its state or imperfect its development . Following this important rule , we shall find that all the primary ideas , and all the simpler objects , natural and artificial , are expressed in English by words so ...
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... human ife in the delineation of character ; and that all - embracing humanity of heart which makes him , as it makes the reader , sympathise with all God's creation , taking away from his humour every taste of bit- terness and sarcasm ...
... human ife in the delineation of character ; and that all - embracing humanity of heart which makes him , as it makes the reader , sympathise with all God's creation , taking away from his humour every taste of bit- terness and sarcasm ...
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... human conduct so great an improvement in point of morality as in the change which has taken place in political relations from the six- teenth century to the present day . The fatal prevalence of that atrocious and infernal policy which ...
... human conduct so great an improvement in point of morality as in the change which has taken place in political relations from the six- teenth century to the present day . The fatal prevalence of that atrocious and infernal policy which ...
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... human reason itself . The simple account of the great Baconian innovation will be sub- stantially as follows . The Aristotelian method had reigned in all the schools and universities of Europe from the period of the revival of letters ...
... human reason itself . The simple account of the great Baconian innovation will be sub- stantially as follows . The Aristotelian method had reigned in all the schools and universities of Europe from the period of the revival of letters ...
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Страница 244 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Страница 218 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
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Страница 157 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Страница 123 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Страница 266 - The successors of Charles V. may disdain their brethren of England: but the romance of 'Tom Jones,' that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the Imperial Eagle of Austria.