A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... nature a special adaptation for the contemplation of truth . For I had a mind at once versatile enough for that most important object - I mean the recognition of similitudes - and at the same time sufficiently steady and concentrated ...
... nature a special adaptation for the contemplation of truth . For I had a mind at once versatile enough for that most important object - I mean the recognition of similitudes - and at the same time sufficiently steady and concentrated ...
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... nature , by the repeated perception of its sensible characteristics . In this , no doubt , we have only a relativist theory of know- ledge ; if geometry , that ideal science , which is a product of the mind itself , retains all its ...
... nature , by the repeated perception of its sensible characteristics . In this , no doubt , we have only a relativist theory of know- ledge ; if geometry , that ideal science , which is a product of the mind itself , retains all its ...
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... nature , the presence of which , be it gentle , calm , austere , or grand , yet ever wholesome , bathes the very inspiration of Wordsworth . To him nature appears as a formative influence superior to any other , the educator of senses ...
... nature , the presence of which , be it gentle , calm , austere , or grand , yet ever wholesome , bathes the very inspiration of Wordsworth . To him nature appears as a formative influence superior to any other , the educator of senses ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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