Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday |
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... sense- perceptions in pictorial compositions and then drew out the moral concepts associated with such images , he brought sense- perception and moral concept into intimate relation through the medium of the intellect , of science . The ...
... sense- perceptions in pictorial compositions and then drew out the moral concepts associated with such images , he brought sense- perception and moral concept into intimate relation through the medium of the intellect , of science . The ...
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... sense of the spirit which issues in a witticism or a bagatelle . But this is not the sense of the word as Arnold applies it to Pope , because his ' quick and darting spirit ' is seen as an appropriate endowment for one who is tracking ...
... sense of the spirit which issues in a witticism or a bagatelle . But this is not the sense of the word as Arnold applies it to Pope , because his ' quick and darting spirit ' is seen as an appropriate endowment for one who is tracking ...
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... sense ) or not . Facts which happen to be more poetical ( in the ordinary sense ) follow in the next lines : From yon old wallnut - tree a show'r shall fall ; And grapes , long - lingring on my only wall ; but their superior ' beauty ...
... sense ) or not . Facts which happen to be more poetical ( in the ordinary sense ) follow in the next lines : From yon old wallnut - tree a show'r shall fall ; And grapes , long - lingring on my only wall ; but their superior ' beauty ...
Contents
DAVID NICHOL SMITH From a drawing by SIR MUIRHEAD BONE Frontispiece | 15 |
DEANE SWIFT HAWKESWORTH AND THE JOURNAL TO STELLA HAROLD WILLIAMS | 33 |
POPE AT WORK GEORGE SHERBURN Harvard University | 65 |
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