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Page iv
... action : they are nothing in themselves . And the utter inability of mere brute matter to call forth the ener- gies of poetry , is evident from the writings of those doctores umbra- tici who in every age have wooed the muse ; their ...
... action : they are nothing in themselves . And the utter inability of mere brute matter to call forth the ener- gies of poetry , is evident from the writings of those doctores umbra- tici who in every age have wooed the muse ; their ...
Page v
... actions deemed by the dull and commonplace in- capable of elevation . Epaminondas was a poet , when he said he would render illustrious the humble office contemptuously appointed him by his countrymen and every one whose mind contains ...
... actions deemed by the dull and commonplace in- capable of elevation . Epaminondas was a poet , when he said he would render illustrious the humble office contemptuously appointed him by his countrymen and every one whose mind contains ...
Page xiv
... actions of religion , or study of wisdom , without sometime slackening the cords of intense thought and labour ; which , lest we should think faulty , God him- self conceals us not his own recreations before the world was built : ' I ...
... actions of religion , or study of wisdom , without sometime slackening the cords of intense thought and labour ; which , lest we should think faulty , God him- self conceals us not his own recreations before the world was built : ' I ...
Page xx
... action , were the prime objects of his Eikonoklastes , and Defence of the People of Eng- land . The former treatise , intended to work conviction in those who spoke the English language , which he loved , and for the expres- sion of ...
... action , were the prime objects of his Eikonoklastes , and Defence of the People of Eng- land . The former treatise , intended to work conviction in those who spoke the English language , which he loved , and for the expres- sion of ...
Page xxvi
... action . Hence the lettered slaves who sprang up under the foster- ing patronage of Charles II . , and his most dissolute and despicable court , whose principal aim it was to depose the Almighty from his throne in the hearts of their ...
... action . Hence the lettered slaves who sprang up under the foster- ing patronage of Charles II . , and his most dissolute and despicable court , whose principal aim it was to depose the Almighty from his throne in the hearts of their ...
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