A Book of English Essays (1600-1900)Stanley Victor Makower, Basil H. Blackwell Oxford University Press, 1952 - 440 pages |
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Page 371
... desire of beauty , to take things as they came . Curiosity and the desire of beauty ! They are the two elementary forces in Leonardo's genius ; curiosity often in conflict with the desire of beauty , but generating , in union with it ...
... desire of beauty , to take things as they came . Curiosity and the desire of beauty ! They are the two elementary forces in Leonardo's genius ; curiosity often in conflict with the desire of beauty , but generating , in union with it ...
Page 374
... desire of beauty ; it tended to make him go too far below that outside of things in which art begins and ends . This struggle between the reason and its ideas and the senses , the desire of beauty , is the key to Leonardo's life at ...
... desire of beauty ; it tended to make him go too far below that outside of things in which art begins and ends . This struggle between the reason and its ideas and the senses , the desire of beauty , is the key to Leonardo's life at ...
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... desire for perfect wives ; though wherefore a man should desire a perfect wife it is indeed difficult to conceive - Why , he has to live with her ! Now does any one seriously long to companion a Treatise on Spiritual Perfection ' bound ...
... desire for perfect wives ; though wherefore a man should desire a perfect wife it is indeed difficult to conceive - Why , he has to live with her ! Now does any one seriously long to companion a Treatise on Spiritual Perfection ' bound ...
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SIR THOMAS OVERBURY 15811613 | 9 |
SIR THOMAS BROWNE 16051682 | 16 |
THOMAS FULLER 16081661 | 22 |
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