Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 6
... human nature , enabled him to put all that was best in himself into these studies of the lives of men for whom he cared , and of the books that he was glad to speak his mind about in his own shrewd independent way . Boswell was somewhat ...
... human nature , enabled him to put all that was best in himself into these studies of the lives of men for whom he cared , and of the books that he was glad to speak his mind about in his own shrewd independent way . Boswell was somewhat ...
Pagina 43
... human passions , and the variety of human wants . Such books , therefore , may be considered as showing the world under a false appearance , and , so far as they obtain credit from the young and unexperienced , as misleading expectation ...
... human passions , and the variety of human wants . Such books , therefore , may be considered as showing the world under a false appearance , and , so far as they obtain credit from the young and unexperienced , as misleading expectation ...
Pagina 47
Samuel Johnson. Contemplative piety , or the intercourse between God and the human soul , cannot be poetical . Man , admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator , and plead the merits of his Redeemer , is already in a higher state than ...
Samuel Johnson. Contemplative piety , or the intercourse between God and the human soul , cannot be poetical . Man , admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator , and plead the merits of his Redeemer , is already in a higher state than ...
Pagina 65
... human mind . Whether we provide for action or conversation , whether we wish to be useful or pleasing , the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of ...
... human mind . Whether we provide for action or conversation , whether we wish to be useful or pleasing , the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of ...
Pagina 71
... human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve . If nothing may be pub- lished but what civil authority shall have previously approved , power must always be the standard of truth ; if every dreamer of innovations may propagate his ...
... human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve . If nothing may be pub- lished but what civil authority shall have previously approved , power must always be the standard of truth ; if every dreamer of innovations may propagate his ...
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