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Pagina 5
... doubt , logically a tendency towards Deism , but nobody ever read the poem for the sake of its philosophy ; and it is well known that Pope was much alarmed when it was pointed out to him that his conclusions might be represented as ...
... doubt , logically a tendency towards Deism , but nobody ever read the poem for the sake of its philosophy ; and it is well known that Pope was much alarmed when it was pointed out to him that his conclusions might be represented as ...
Pagina 6
... doubt to favouring conditions of nature and society , but quite as much to the genius of great individuals who pre- pared the mind of the nation for the gradual assimila- tion of new ideas . Thus Langland and Wycliffe and 6 [ CHAP ...
... doubt to favouring conditions of nature and society , but quite as much to the genius of great individuals who pre- pared the mind of the nation for the gradual assimila- tion of new ideas . Thus Langland and Wycliffe and 6 [ CHAP ...
Pagina 16
... doubt superfluous to expend much moral indignation on works which have long since lost their power to charm ; come- dies in which the reader finds neither the horseplay of Aristophanes , nor the nature of Terence , nor the poetry of ...
... doubt superfluous to expend much moral indignation on works which have long since lost their power to charm ; come- dies in which the reader finds neither the horseplay of Aristophanes , nor the nature of Terence , nor the poetry of ...
Pagina 20
... doubt , with music and majesty by many writers ; but the style of these is scarcely representative ; they had used the language for their own elevated purposes , without , however , attempt- ing to give it that balanced fineness and ...
... doubt , with music and majesty by many writers ; but the style of these is scarcely representative ; they had used the language for their own elevated purposes , without , however , attempt- ing to give it that balanced fineness and ...
Pagina 26
... doubt , is the set description of a moralist , and to an age in which the liberty of manners has grown into something like license it may savour of formalism and priggishness ; but when we remember that the writer was one of the most ...
... doubt , is the set description of a moralist , and to an age in which the liberty of manners has grown into something like license it may savour of formalism and priggishness ; but when we remember that the writer was one of the most ...
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