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... mind , if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean , not of course all writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our definition excludes many metrical compo- sitions which ...
... mind , if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean , not of course all writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our definition excludes many metrical compo- sitions which ...
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... mind indeed do we think his classical diction com- through conductors . The most unimaginative parable to that of Milton . The authority of man must understand the Iliad . Homer gives Johnson is against us on this point . But him no ...
... mind indeed do we think his classical diction com- through conductors . The most unimaginative parable to that of Milton . The authority of man must understand the Iliad . Homer gives Johnson is against us on this point . But him no ...
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... mind , without bestow- ing a thought on those dramatic proprieties which the nature of the work rendered it im- possible to preserve . In the attempt to recon- cile things in their own nature inconsistent , he has failed , as every one ...
... mind , without bestow- ing a thought on those dramatic proprieties which the nature of the work rendered it im- possible to preserve . In the attempt to recon- cile things in their own nature inconsistent , he has failed , as every one ...
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... minds in nian soil of which the intense bitterness is said which they have not been effaced by anxiety to have been perceptible even in its honey . and disappointment , he adorned it with all His mind was , in the noble language of the ...
... minds in nian soil of which the intense bitterness is said which they have not been effaced by anxiety to have been perceptible even in its honey . and disappointment , he adorned it with all His mind was , in the noble language of the ...
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... mind , are pro- fessed without the slightest circumlocution , and assumed as the fundamental axioms of all political science . It is not strange that ordinary readers should regard the author of such a book as the most depraved and ...
... mind , are pro- fessed without the slightest circumlocution , and assumed as the fundamental axioms of all political science . It is not strange that ordinary readers should regard the author of such a book as the most depraved and ...
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