Lectures on English Poets & The Spirit of the AgeJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1925 - 349 páginas |
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... Principles of Human Action with Remarks on the System of Hartley and Helvetius , 1805 ; Free Thoughts on Public Affairs , 1806 ; Abridgment of Abraham Tucker's Light of Nature , 1807 ; Eloquence of the British Senate ( Parliamentary ...
... Principles of Human Action with Remarks on the System of Hartley and Helvetius , 1805 ; Free Thoughts on Public Affairs , 1806 ; Abridgment of Abraham Tucker's Light of Nature , 1807 ; Eloquence of the British Senate ( Parliamentary ...
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... principles of poetry , act upon them all our lives , like Molière's Bourgeois Gentilhomme , who had always spoken prose without knowing it . The child is a poet in fact , when he first plays at hide - and - seek , or repeats the story ...
... principles of poetry , act upon them all our lives , like Molière's Bourgeois Gentilhomme , who had always spoken prose without knowing it . The child is a poet in fact , when he first plays at hide - and - seek , or repeats the story ...
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... principle in the mind as the love of pleasure . Objects of terror and pity exercise the same despotic control over it as those of love or beauty . It is as natural to hate as to love , to despise as to admire , to express our hatred or ...
... principle in the mind as the love of pleasure . Objects of terror and pity exercise the same despotic control over it as those of love or beauty . It is as natural to hate as to love , to despise as to admire , to express our hatred or ...
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... principles of government are carried still farther in theory and practice , we find that the Beggar's Opera is hooted from the stage . Society , by degrees , is constructed into a machine that carries us safely and insipidly from one ...
... principles of government are carried still farther in theory and practice , we find that the Beggar's Opera is hooted from the stage . Society , by degrees , is constructed into a machine that carries us safely and insipidly from one ...
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... principle within them . In their faultless excellence they appear sufficient to themselves . By their beauty they are raised above the frailties of passion or suffering . By their beauty they are deified . But they are not objects of ...
... principle within them . In their faultless excellence they appear sufficient to themselves . By their beauty they are raised above the frailties of passion or suffering . By their beauty they are deified . But they are not objects of ...
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