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Page 127
... poetic talent " ; his " study of the sciences widened the sphere of his poetic ideas , and enriched his verses with new images . " And what was true of Voltaire was true of other poets : theological allusions and metaphysical conceits ...
... poetic talent " ; his " study of the sciences widened the sphere of his poetic ideas , and enriched his verses with new images . " And what was true of Voltaire was true of other poets : theological allusions and metaphysical conceits ...
Page 214
... poets will be less and less appreciated . The first writers , it is said , were poets . I can well believe it ; they could hardly be anything else . The last writers will be philosophers . " 8 What Trublet is suggesting here is , in ...
... poets will be less and less appreciated . The first writers , it is said , were poets . I can well believe it ; they could hardly be anything else . The last writers will be philosophers . " 8 What Trublet is suggesting here is , in ...
Page 215
... poet - Diderot had , after all , told Catherine of Russia that Voltaire was a good poet precisely because he was an intellectual1 - but it seemed to the phil- osophes that the poets , at least of the Christian era , knew all the wrong ...
... poet - Diderot had , after all , told Catherine of Russia that Voltaire was a good poet precisely because he was an intellectual1 - but it seemed to the phil- osophes that the poets , at least of the Christian era , knew all the wrong ...
Contents
Progress From Experience to Program | 56 |
The Uses of Nature | 126 |
The Science of Man | 167 |
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