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... as of Pope at Twickenham , the English upper classes retained their fashionable contempt for women's intellect , though mingling more freely in feminine society . For this reason their taste is more uncertain , their language ...
... as of Pope at Twickenham , the English upper classes retained their fashionable contempt for women's intellect , though mingling more freely in feminine society . For this reason their taste is more uncertain , their language ...
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In the second place , the effort at a more exact , judicious standard , and the emphasis upon reason as the surest means of arriving thereat , result in the accentuation of analysis and logic at the expense of the synthetic imagination ...
In the second place , the effort at a more exact , judicious standard , and the emphasis upon reason as the surest means of arriving thereat , result in the accentuation of analysis and logic at the expense of the synthetic imagination ...
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Let these too go — for waking Reason deems Such overweening phantasies unsound.64 » The fourth canto is Byron's final , complete break with the past . The Childe , the fevered dream of something beyond reality , " metaphysics , " all ...
Let these too go — for waking Reason deems Such overweening phantasies unsound.64 » The fourth canto is Byron's final , complete break with the past . The Childe , the fevered dream of something beyond reality , " metaphysics , " all ...
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| Title | Byron: Romantic Paradox |
| Author | William Jonathan Calvert |
| Edition | reprint, reissue |
| Publisher | Russell & Russell, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 235 pages |
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