Essays, Letters from AbroadMoxon, 1845 - 164 pages |
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... ; a great statue or picture grows un under the power of the artist as a child in the mother's womb ; and the very mind which directs the hands in formation is incapable of accounting to itself for 12 A DEFENCE OF POETRY .
... ; a great statue or picture grows un under the power of the artist as a child in the mother's womb ; and the very mind which directs the hands in formation is incapable of accounting to itself for 12 A DEFENCE OF POETRY .
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Percy Bysshe Shelley. hands in formation is incapable of accounting to itself for the origin , the gradations , or the media of the process . Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds . We are ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley. hands in formation is incapable of accounting to itself for the origin , the gradations , or the media of the process . Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds . We are ...
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... hand ; for how can that be called igno- rance which arrives at the persuasion of that which it really is ? A right opinion is something between understanding and ignorance .'— I confessed that what she alleged was true . Do not then say ...
... hand ; for how can that be called igno- rance which arrives at the persuasion of that which it really is ? A right opinion is something between understanding and ignorance .'— I confessed that what she alleged was true . Do not then say ...
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... hands and feet , if they think that they are the cause of evil to them . Nor do they cherish and embrace that which may belong to themselves , merely because it is their own ; unless , indeed , any one should choose to say , that that ...
... hands and feet , if they think that they are the cause of evil to them . Nor do they cherish and embrace that which may belong to themselves , merely because it is their own ; unless , indeed , any one should choose to say , that that ...
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... hands , or any portion of the body , nor like any discourse , nor any science . Nor does it subsist in any other that lives or is , either in earth , or in heaven , or in any other place ; but it is eternally uniform and consistent ...
... hands , or any portion of the body , nor like any discourse , nor any science . Nor does it subsist in any other that lives or is , either in earth , or in heaven , or in any other place ; but it is eternally uniform and consistent ...
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