| 1856 - 596 páginas
...had, or personated, in love and friendship, I conceive their refnements were grounded upon reason, and that a little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything... | |
| Adam Potkay - 1994 - 276 páginas
...refinements were grounded upon reason, and that a little grain of romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into every thing that is sordid, vicious and low. If there were no other use in the conversation of ladies, it is sufficient... | |
| Louise Barnett - 2006 - 238 páginas
...beauty. He articulated his fear more directly in Hints towards an Essay on Conversation, where he wrote that "a little Grain of the Romance is no ill Ingredient to preserve and exalt the Dignity of human Nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into every Thing... | |
| 1813 - 752 páginas
...reason, and that a ',"•'/, grain of romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity-of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into every thing that is sordid, vicious, and low.' — The great revolution in government which succeeded this period, not... | |
| Carlo Formichi - 1924 - 578 páginas
...had, or personated, in love and friendship, 1 conceive their refinements were grounded upon reason. and that a little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the diguity of human nature (3), without which it is apt to degenerate into everything... | |
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