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... learning or much reading . This must necessarily be of great use to all those poets who confess they never read , and of whom the world is con- vinced they never learn . What Moliere observes of making a dinner , that any man can do it ...
... learning or much reading . This must necessarily be of great use to all those poets who confess they never read , and of whom the world is con- vinced they never learn . What Moliere observes of making a dinner , that any man can do it ...
Strana 156
... learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves . Those who have been taught to consider the institutions of the schools as giving the last perfection to human abilities are surprised ...
... learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves . Those who have been taught to consider the institutions of the schools as giving the last perfection to human abilities are surprised ...
Strana 158
... learning are always overpaid by gratitude . An elevated genius employed in little things appears , to use the simile of Longinus , like the sun in his evening declination ; he remits his splendour but retains his magnitude , and pleases ...
... learning are always overpaid by gratitude . An elevated genius employed in little things appears , to use the simile of Longinus , like the sun in his evening declination ; he remits his splendour but retains his magnitude , and pleases ...
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INTRODUCTION | ix |
FRANCIS BACON Lord Verulam | 1 |
ALEXANDER POPE xxv On Dedications Guardian No | 4 |
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