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... , the inference should be , not that poets make bad politicians , but rather that this politician is but an in- Prometheus Unbound . ' * Shelley . different poet . For true greatness in poetry there is PREFACE . xiii.
... , the inference should be , not that poets make bad politicians , but rather that this politician is but an in- Prometheus Unbound . ' * Shelley . different poet . For true greatness in poetry there is PREFACE . xiii.
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Sir Henry Taylor. different poet . For true greatness in poetry there is none without wisdom , -without that wisdom at least which errs not widely in the philosophy of politics , whether or not it be competent to the conduct of affairs ...
Sir Henry Taylor. different poet . For true greatness in poetry there is none without wisdom , -without that wisdom at least which errs not widely in the philosophy of politics , whether or not it be competent to the conduct of affairs ...
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... true tastes of mankind are permanent and the false deciduous , there are nevertheless those elements of faise taste permanently inherent in human nature , which will perpetuate the kind and quality of bad poetry , however speedy may be ...
... true tastes of mankind are permanent and the false deciduous , there are nevertheless those elements of faise taste permanently inherent in human nature , which will perpetuate the kind and quality of bad poetry , however speedy may be ...
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... true knowledge leads to love , True dignity abides with him alone Who , in the silent hour of inward thought Can still suspect , and still revere himself , In lowliness of heart . " Let the stranger who is addressed in this passage be ...
... true knowledge leads to love , True dignity abides with him alone Who , in the silent hour of inward thought Can still suspect , and still revere himself , In lowliness of heart . " Let the stranger who is addressed in this passage be ...
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... true goodness . * " Then let him pass , a blessing on his head ! And - while in that vast solitude to which The tide of things has borne him , he appears To breathe and live but for himself alone- Unblamed , uninjured , let him bear ...
... true goodness . * " Then let him pass , a blessing on his head ! And - while in that vast solitude to which The tide of things has borne him , he appears To breathe and live but for himself alone- Unblamed , uninjured , let him bear ...
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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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