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" ... that philosophical, that geometrical, and systematical spirit so much in vogue, which has spread itself from the sciences even into polite literature, by consulting only reason, has not diminished and destroyed sentiment ; and made our poets write... "
An Essay on Painting: In Two Epistles to Mr. Romney - Page 134
by William Hayley - 1781 - 96 pages
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Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of Literature

Thomas Green - 1810 - 262 pages
...even into polite literature, by consulting only reason, has not diminished and destroyed sentiment ; and made our poets write from and to the head, rather than the heart ? " This is just, as far as it goes : but why, as knowledge, civilization, and refinement, advance,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 pages
...even into polite literature, by consulting only reason, has not diminished and destroyed sentiment ; and made our poets write from and to the head, rather than the heart ; or whether, lastly, when just models, from which the rules have necessarily been drawn, have once appeared, succeeding...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pages
...even into polite literature, by consulting only reason, has not diminished and destroyed sentiment ; and made our poets write from and to the head, rather than the heart ; or whether, lastly, when just models, from which the rules have necessarily been drawn, have once appeared, succeeding...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...even into polite literature, by consulting only reason, has not diminished and destroyed sentiment ; and made our poets write from and to the head, rather than the heart ? or whether, lastly, when just models, from which the rules have necessarily been drawn, have once appeared, succeeding...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 pages
...even into polite literature, by consulting only reason, has not diminished and destroyed sentiment ; and made our poets write from and to the head, rather than the heart ? or whether, lastly, when just models, from which the rules have necessarily been drawn, have once appeared, succeeding...
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The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...even into polite literature, by consulting only reason, has not diminished and destroyed sentiment ; and made our poets write from and to the head, rather than the heart ? or whether, lastly, when just models, from which the rules have necessarily been drawn, have once appeared, succeeding...
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A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 10

Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 480 pages
...even into polite literature, by consulting only reason, has not diminished and destroyed sentiment, and made our poets write from and to the head rather than the heart; or whether, lastly, when just models, from which the rules have neces*Warton quotes the following bathetic opening...
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Essays and Studies, Volume 9

English Association - 1924 - 152 pages
...even into polite literature, by consulting only REASON, has not diminished and destroyed SENTIMENT ; and made our poets write from and to the HEAD rather than the HEAKT ' ; and thinks (i. 161) ' that the progress of ... the belles lettres, was perhaps obstructed...
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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 4, The Eighteenth Century

H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 pages
...Warton asks his reader to consider whether this spirit 'has not diminished and destroyed SENTIMENT; and made our poets write from and to the HEAD rather than the HEART'. Sensibility has to be rediscovered - and so 23 See Schmidt, Richardson, Rousseau und Goethe. 24 See,...
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Alexander Pope and His Critics: An essay on the genius and writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 2004 - 508 pages
...even into polite literature, by consulting only REASON, has not diminished and destroyed SENTIMENT; and made our poets write from and to the HEAD rather than the HEART: or whether, lastly, when just models from which the rules have necessarily been drawn, have once appeared, succeeding...
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