American Literature Survey: The American romantics, 1800-1860Milton R. Stern, Seymour L. Gross Viking Press, 1968 - Fiction |
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... cause he has acquired renown as a poet . All fools are poets ; this the Prefect feels ; and he is merely guilty of a non distributio medii [ undistributed middle ] in thence inferring that all poets are fools . ” " But is this really ...
... cause he has acquired renown as a poet . All fools are poets ; this the Prefect feels ; and he is merely guilty of a non distributio medii [ undistributed middle ] in thence inferring that all poets are fools . ” " But is this really ...
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... cause . Here is the fountain of action and of thought . Here are the lungs of that inspira- tion which giveth man wisdom and which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism . We lie in the lap of im- mense intelligence , which makes ...
... cause . Here is the fountain of action and of thought . Here are the lungs of that inspira- tion which giveth man wisdom and which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism . We lie in the lap of im- mense intelligence , which makes ...
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... cause , which refuses to be named — ineffable cause , which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol , as , Thales by water , Anaximenes by air , Anaxagoras by ( Nous ) thought , Zoroaster by fire , Jesus and ...
... cause , which refuses to be named — ineffable cause , which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol , as , Thales by water , Anaximenes by air , Anaxagoras by ( Nous ) thought , Zoroaster by fire , Jesus and ...
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