The Spectator, Volume 5George Atherton Aitken G. Routledge, 1898 - English essays |
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... thought the best employment of human wit . Other parts of philosophy may perhaps make us wiser , but this not only ... thoughts ; an inquiry into which as much exceeds all other learning , as it is of more consequence to adjust the true ...
... thought the best employment of human wit . Other parts of philosophy may perhaps make us wiser , but this not only ... thoughts ; an inquiry into which as much exceeds all other learning , as it is of more consequence to adjust the true ...
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... thought I sate me down on a bank of flowers and dropped into a slumber , which , whether it were the effect of fumes and vapours , or my present thoughts , I know not ; but methought the genius of the garden stood before me , and ...
... thought I sate me down on a bank of flowers and dropped into a slumber , which , whether it were the effect of fumes and vapours , or my present thoughts , I know not ; but methought the genius of the garden stood before me , and ...
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... thought is beautiful which is not just , and no thought can be just which is not founded in truth , or at least in that which passes for such . In mock - heroic poems , the use of the heathen mythology is not only excusable but graceful ...
... thought is beautiful which is not just , and no thought can be just which is not founded in truth , or at least in that which passes for such . In mock - heroic poems , the use of the heathen mythology is not only excusable but graceful ...
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