English Critical Texts: 16th Century to 20th CenturyDennis Joseph Enright, Ernst De Chickera Oxford University Press, 1962 - 398 pages |
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... reason of his , as all his , is most full of reason . For , indeed , if the question were whether it were better to have a particular act truly or falsely set down , there is no doubt which is to be chosen , no more than whether you had ...
... reason of his , as all his , is most full of reason . For , indeed , if the question were whether it were better to have a particular act truly or falsely set down , there is no doubt which is to be chosen , no more than whether you had ...
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... reason and imagination , the former may be considered as mind contemplating the relations borne by one thought to ... Reason is the enumeration of quantities already known ; imagination is the 15 perception of the value of those ...
... reason and imagination , the former may be considered as mind contemplating the relations borne by one thought to ... Reason is the enumeration of quantities already known ; imagination is the 15 perception of the value of those ...
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... reason , of our excellent and indispensable eighteenth century . For the purposes of their mission and destiny their poetry , like their prose , is admirable . Do you ask me whether Dryden's verse , take it almost where you will , is ...
... reason , of our excellent and indispensable eighteenth century . For the purposes of their mission and destiny their poetry , like their prose , is admirable . Do you ask me whether Dryden's verse , take it almost where you will , is ...
Contents
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy | 50 |
An Essay on Criticism III | 111 |
Preface to Shakespeare | 131 |
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