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" Adam, since our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it. "
The Works of the Honourable Sr. Philip Sidney, Kt. in Prose and Verse: I. A ... - Page 9
by Philip Sidney - 1724
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Sir Philip Sydney's Defense of Poetry: And Observations on Poetry and ...

Sir Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1787 - 158 pages
...with no fmall arguments to the incredulous of that firft accurfed fall of Adam ; fince our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepcth us from reaching unto it. But thefe arguments will by few be underftood, and by fewer granted...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 10

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 378 pages
...with no small arguments to the incredulous of that first accursed fall of Adam. — Since our erect wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it." He now proceeds to arrange poetry under various artificial divisions and subdivisions ; shewing, however,...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 10

Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...with no small arguments to the incredulous of that first .accursed fall of Adam. — Since our erect wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it." He now proceeds to arrange poetry under various artificial divisions and subdivisions ; shewing, however,...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...doings, with no small arguments to the incredulous of that first accursed fall of Adam, since our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our...infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it. But these arguments will by few be understood, and by fewer granted : thus much I hope will be given me,...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 10

Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...with no small arguments to the incredulous of that first accursed fall of Adam. — Since our erect wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it." He now proceeds to arrange poetry under various artificial divisions and subdivisions ; shewing, however,...
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The New-York Literary Gazette, and Phi Beta Kappa Repository, Volume 1

Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...with no small arguments to the incredulous of that first accursed fall of Adam. — Since our erect wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching; unto it." He now proceeds to arrange poetry under various artificial divisions and suhdivisions ; showing, however,...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...doings, with no small arguments to the incredulous of that first accursed fall of Adam, since our ejected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it. — Sir P. Sidney's Defence of Poesy. ecu. Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic...
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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Sir Philip Sidney's ...

English literature - 1831 - 368 pages
...with no small arguments to the incredulous of that first accursed fall of Adam ; since our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our...infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it. But these arguments will by few be understood, and by fewer granted : thus much I hope will be given me,...
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The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies..

Authors - 1845 - 762 pages
...doings, with no small arguments to the incredulous of the first accursed fall of Adam, since our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it." Sidney, be it remembered, was now but in his twenty-seventh year. In 1583 the poet married the daughter...
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The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies...

1845 - 384 pages
...doings, with no small arguments to the incredulous of the first accursed fall of Adam, since our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepetk us from reaching unto it." Sidney, be it remembered, was now but in his twenty-seventh year....
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