Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1J. M. Dent, 1951 - 1338 pages |
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Page 155
... Truth , indeed , is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness . The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false . After the first suppositions have been made , everything ought to be con- sistent ; but those first ...
... Truth , indeed , is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness . The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false . After the first suppositions have been made , everything ought to be con- sistent ; but those first ...
Page 208
... truth which is to be learned from them . What general truth do we learn from the accounts which have come down to us of the battle of Delium ? Very little more than this , that when two armies fight , it is not improbable that one of ...
... truth which is to be learned from them . What general truth do we learn from the accounts which have come down to us of the battle of Delium ? Very little more than this , that when two armies fight , it is not improbable that one of ...
Page 287
... truth , we are reformers : we are on the side of progress . From the great advances which European society has made , during the last four centuries , in every species of knowledge , we infer , not that there is no more room for ...
... truth , we are reformers : we are on the side of progress . From the great advances which European society has made , during the last four centuries , in every species of knowledge , we infer , not that there is no more room for ...
Contents
HALLAMS HISTORY | 3 |
RANKES HISTORY OF THE POPES | 31 |
BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES | 77 |
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