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Sir Henry Taylor. for present consideration . Our great Poets have been , perhaps , our best political philosophers ; and if the reading and study of poetry be put aside by political commotions , it is because men lack time to be ...
Sir Henry Taylor. for present consideration . Our great Poets have been , perhaps , our best political philosophers ; and if the reading and study of poetry be put aside by political commotions , it is because men lack time to be ...
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... , in order to be recognised as just in politics , should have been , perhaps , more distinctly connected with that other portion of his argument which insists upon the im- portance , in the lot of Man , of those xvi PREFACE .
... , in order to be recognised as just in politics , should have been , perhaps , more distinctly connected with that other portion of his argument which insists upon the im- portance , in the lot of Man , of those xvi PREFACE .
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... perhaps , employed with propriety and with distinguished success , in some passages conceived in the same mood of mind and pointed to the same effects which are aimed at by its subsequent employers ; the word takes , as it were , the ...
... perhaps , employed with propriety and with distinguished success , in some passages conceived in the same mood of mind and pointed to the same effects which are aimed at by its subsequent employers ; the word takes , as it were , the ...
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... perhaps , on a revision of what he had written , would most desire to efface . In the poetry of Keats , with all its grace of diction and fervour These errors , when they shall have become old and 4 WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS .
... perhaps , on a revision of what he had written , would most desire to efface . In the poetry of Keats , with all its grace of diction and fervour These errors , when they shall have become old and 4 WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS .
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... Perhaps , however , the progress of Mr. Wordsworth's principles has been more aided by his poems than by his prefaces - by his practice than by his theory ; for whilst the consideration of the latter is still we believe confined to ...
... Perhaps , however , the progress of Mr. Wordsworth's principles has been more aided by his poems than by his prefaces - by his practice than by his theory ; for whilst the consideration of the latter is still we believe confined to ...
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Page 13 - II. Physics and Politics ; or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "Natural Selection " and " Inheritance
Page 110 - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
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Page 110 - Say there be; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 4 - The Principles of Mental Physiology. With their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions.
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