Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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Page 7
... uniformity in the cause . The fact is , that common observers reason from the progress of the experimental sciences to that of imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials.
... uniformity in the cause . The fact is , that common observers reason from the progress of the experimental sciences to that of imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials.
Page 28
... common with human nature to be intelligible to human beings . Their characters are , like their forms , marked by a certain dim resemblance to those of men , but exaggerated to gigantic dimen- sions , and veiled in mysterious gloom ...
... common with human nature to be intelligible to human beings . Their characters are , like their forms , marked by a certain dim resemblance to those of men , but exaggerated to gigantic dimen- sions , and veiled in mysterious gloom ...
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... common with those modern beggars for fame , who extort a pittance from the compassion of the inexperienced by exposing the nakedness and sores of their minds . Yet it would be difficult to name two writers whose works have been more ...
... common with those modern beggars for fame , who extort a pittance from the compassion of the inexperienced by exposing the nakedness and sores of their minds . Yet it would be difficult to name two writers whose works have been more ...
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... common phrase , a good man , but a bad king . We can as easily conceive a good man and an unnatural father , or a good man and a treacherous friend . We cannot , in estimating the character of an individual , leave out of our ...
... common phrase , a good man , but a bad king . We can as easily conceive a good man and an unnatural father , or a good man and a treacherous friend . We cannot , in estimating the character of an individual , leave out of our ...
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... common to them with all their fellow- citizens . Those who drove James from his throne , who seduced his army , who alienated his friends , who first imprisoned him in his palace , and then turned him out of it , who broke in upon his ...
... common to them with all their fellow- citizens . Those who drove James from his throne , who seduced his army , who alienated his friends , who first imprisoned him in his palace , and then turned him out of it , who broke in upon his ...
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