Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1952 - 472 pagina's |
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Pagina 122
... human manners till the Fall , it can give little assistance to human conduct . Its end is to raise the thoughts above sublunary cares or pleasures . Yet the praise of that fortitude , with which Abdiel maintained his singularity of ...
... human manners till the Fall , it can give little assistance to human conduct . Its end is to raise the thoughts above sublunary cares or pleasures . Yet the praise of that fortitude , with which Abdiel maintained his singularity of ...
Pagina 126
... human actions nor human manners . The man and woman who act and suffer , are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know . The reader finds no transaction in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition in which he can by any ...
... human actions nor human manners . The man and woman who act and suffer , are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know . The reader finds no transaction in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition in which he can by any ...
Pagina 379
... human nature and human life . In deter- minations depending not on rules , but on experience and comparison , judgement is always in some degree subject to affection . Very near to admiration is the wish to ad- mire . Every man ...
... human nature and human life . In deter- minations depending not on rules , but on experience and comparison , judgement is always in some degree subject to affection . Very near to admiration is the wish to ad- mire . Every man ...
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