The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits. [By W. Hazlitt.] |
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Mr. Bentham is very much among philosophers what La Fontaine was among poets : in general habits and in all but his professional pursuits , he is a mere child . He has lived for the last forty years in a house in Westminster ...
Mr. Bentham is very much among philosophers what La Fontaine was among poets : in general habits and in all but his professional pursuits , he is a mere child . He has lived for the last forty years in a house in Westminster ...
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... with lack - lustre eye to point out to the stranger a stone in the wall at the end of his garden ( overarched by two beautiful cotton - trees ) Inscribed to the Prince of Poets , which marks the house where Milton formerly lived .
... with lack - lustre eye to point out to the stranger a stone in the wall at the end of his garden ( overarched by two beautiful cotton - trees ) Inscribed to the Prince of Poets , which marks the house where Milton formerly lived .
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Again , what would become of the Posthæc meminisse juvabit of the poet , if a principle of fluctuation and reaction is not inherent in the very constitution of our nature , or if all moral truth is a mere literal truism ?
Again , what would become of the Posthæc meminisse juvabit of the poet , if a principle of fluctuation and reaction is not inherent in the very constitution of our nature , or if all moral truth is a mere literal truism ?
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We are to discard and throw from us with loud taunts and bitter execrations that reason , which has been the lofty theme of the philosopher , the poet , the moralist , and the divine , whose name was not first named to be abused by the ...
We are to discard and throw from us with loud taunts and bitter execrations that reason , which has been the lofty theme of the philosopher , the poet , the moralist , and the divine , whose name was not first named to be abused by the ...
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If he had not been a poet , he would have been a powerful logician ; if he had not dipped his wing in the Unitarian controversy , he might have soared to the very summit of fancy . But in writing verse , he is trying to subject the Muse ...
If he had not been a poet , he would have been a powerful logician ; if he had not dipped his wing in the Unitarian controversy , he might have soared to the very summit of fancy . But in writing verse , he is trying to subject the Muse ...
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