Plato to Alexander Pope: Backgrounds of Modern CriticismWalter Sutton, Vivian Sutton Odyssey Press, 1966 - 243 pages |
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Page 156
... virtues . There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned . " The true artificer will not run away from nature , as he were afraid of her , or depart from life and the likeness of truth , but speak to the capacity of his ...
... virtues . There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned . " The true artificer will not run away from nature , as he were afraid of her , or depart from life and the likeness of truth , but speak to the capacity of his ...
Page 158
... virtue but rather help to make it manifest . . . . A prince without letters is a pilot without eyes . All his government is groping . In sovereignty it is a most happy thing not to be com- pelled , but so it is the most miserable not to ...
... virtue but rather help to make it manifest . . . . A prince without letters is a pilot without eyes . All his government is groping . In sovereignty it is a most happy thing not to be com- pelled , but so it is the most miserable not to ...
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... virtue of their fable the sticking in of sentences , as ours do the forcing in of jests . ... Speech is the only benefit man hath to express his excellency of mind above other creatures . It is the instrument of society . . . . In all ...
... virtue of their fable the sticking in of sentences , as ours do the forcing in of jests . ... Speech is the only benefit man hath to express his excellency of mind above other creatures . It is the instrument of society . . . . In all ...
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