A Book of English Essays (1600-1900)Stanley Victor Makower, Basil H. Blackwell Oxford University Press, 1952 - 440 pages |
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Page 191
... imagination colours , was to him a blank . He took space to be the sensorium of the Deity ( so noble a fancy could be struck out of the involuntary encounter between his intense sense of a mystery and the imagination he despised ! ) and ...
... imagination colours , was to him a blank . He took space to be the sensorium of the Deity ( so noble a fancy could be struck out of the involuntary encounter between his intense sense of a mystery and the imagination he despised ! ) and ...
Page 196
... imagination ; for the more we know of any one ground of knowledge , the further we see into the general domains of intellect , if we are not mere slaves of the soil . A little philosophy , says Bacon , takes men away from religion ; a ...
... imagination ; for the more we know of any one ground of knowledge , the further we see into the general domains of intellect , if we are not mere slaves of the soil . A little philosophy , says Bacon , takes men away from religion ; a ...
Page 337
... imagination , was not regarded by him with the esteem which her devotion was calculated to inspire ? It is quite impossible . ' Dante was a true - hearted gentleman , and could never have spoken slightingly of her on whose breast he had ...
... imagination , was not regarded by him with the esteem which her devotion was calculated to inspire ? It is quite impossible . ' Dante was a true - hearted gentleman , and could never have spoken slightingly of her on whose breast he had ...
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SIR THOMAS OVERBURY 15811613 | 9 |
SIR THOMAS BROWNE 16051682 | 16 |
THOMAS FULLER 16081661 | 22 |
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