American Literature Survey: The American romantics, 1800-1860Milton R. Stern, Seymour L. Gross Viking Press, 1968 - Fiction |
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Page 158
... reason has long been regarded as the reason par excellence . " " Il y a à parier , ' " replied Dupin , quoting from Cham- fort , " ' que toute idée publique , toute convention reçue , est une sottise , car elle a convenu au plus grand ...
... reason has long been regarded as the reason par excellence . " " Il y a à parier , ' " replied Dupin , quoting from Cham- fort , " ' que toute idée publique , toute convention reçue , est une sottise , car elle a convenu au plus grand ...
Page 241
... Reason : it is not mine , or thine , or his , but we are its ; we are its property and men . And the blue sky in which the private earth is buried , the sky with its eternal calm , and full of everlasting orbs , is the type of Reason ...
... Reason : it is not mine , or thine , or his , but we are its ; we are its property and men . And the blue sky in which the private earth is buried , the sky with its eternal calm , and full of everlasting orbs , is the type of Reason ...
Page 252
... Reason opens , to outline and surface are at once added grace and expression . These proceed from imagination and affection , and abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects . If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision ...
... Reason opens , to outline and surface are at once added grace and expression . These proceed from imagination and affection , and abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects . If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision ...
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