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" All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature,... "
Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from ... - Página 184
por Edmund Burke - 1811
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The Cambridge History of English Literature: The period of the French Revolution

Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1914 - 552 páginas
...all the sentiments of loyalty and reverence which constitute 'the decent drapery of life,' serving ' to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature,...and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation.' From these two sections, on ' the rights of man ' and the spirit of their devotees, 1 Burke had himself...
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The Cambridge History of English Literature: The period of the French revolution

Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1914 - 606 páginas
...all the sentiments of loyalty and reverence which constitute "the decent drapery of life," serving "to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature,...and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation." From these two sections, on "the rights of man" and the spirit of their devotees, naturally flows all...
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 páginas
...conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All d age; 10 And these thy sacred virtues must protect...thee dear. EPISTLE TO THE LADY MARGARET, COUNTESS WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800) • THE TASK FROM BOOK I There often wanders one, whom better days Saw better...
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892).

1916 - 792 páginas
...conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All nukori shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a...
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 806 páginas
...which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our m-.ked, aiden's hand is round thee thrown ! That desperate...bars of brass and triple steel ! They tug ! They WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800) THE TASK FROM BOOK I There often wanders one, whom better days Saw better...
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Calendar, Parte3

University of Calcutta - 1917 - 844 páginas
...— HC MAITRA, ESQ., MA 6. Explain two of the following with reference to the context: — (a) All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe...exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. (6) These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like the rays of light which pierce into a dense...
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English Political Philosophy from Hobbes to Maine

William Graham - 1919 - 458 páginas
...conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off ; all the superadded ideas furnished from the wardrobe of...imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratines as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity...
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The Foundations of Peace

Seamus Burke - 1920 - 194 páginas
...of any race or nation, but are a natural growth out of the social conscience of civilized humanity "which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies...and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation." Good manners are no more indigenous to the Cromwellian or Williamite planter than they are to the poorest...
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English Prose and Poetry

John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 páginas
...conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All said he, 'that lie so fresh an WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800) THE TASK FROM BOOK I There often wanders one, whom better days Saw better...
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On Writing and Writers

Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1926 - 236 páginas
...conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe...imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratines, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity...
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