The Works of Sir Henry Taylor, Issue 73, Volume 5H. S. King & Company, 1878 |
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... relations with each other the former , on the contrary , growing beside the latter like a mildewed ear , " blasting its wholesome brother . " At this period , Mr. Wordsworth , challenging and defying , as it were , the evil spirit which ...
... relations with each other the former , on the contrary , growing beside the latter like a mildewed ear , " blasting its wholesome brother . " At this period , Mr. Wordsworth , challenging and defying , as it were , the evil spirit which ...
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... , then , that the relation is meant to be comic ? —a comic narrative , merely adumbrating such matter of serious thought as all truth is pregnant with , when regarded with a philosophic mind ? WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS . 9.
... , then , that the relation is meant to be comic ? —a comic narrative , merely adumbrating such matter of serious thought as all truth is pregnant with , when regarded with a philosophic mind ? WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS . 9.
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... relations with external nature . Man is the text , but there is always a running commentary of natural pheno- In his great work , " the mind of man " is , as he announces , " the haunt and the main region of his song ; " mena . but the ...
... relations with external nature . Man is the text , but there is always a running commentary of natural pheno- In his great work , " the mind of man " is , as he announces , " the haunt and the main region of his song ; " mena . but the ...
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... relations with his fellow - creatures . Wherein , then , is to consist the freedom of his heart ? The answer is , in self- government upon a large scale , -in so ordering the circumstances of his life and determining the general ...
... relations with his fellow - creatures . Wherein , then , is to consist the freedom of his heart ? The answer is , in self- government upon a large scale , -in so ordering the circumstances of his life and determining the general ...
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... relation who was a tradesman in London , in order that there might be a prospect of retrieving through him the fortunes of the family ; the son went in great hope and with good dispositions ; but after he had been some time in London ...
... relation who was a tradesman in London , in order that there might be a prospect of retrieving through him the fortunes of the family ; the son went in great hope and with good dispositions ; but after he had been some time in London ...
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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.
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