This doth she, when, from things particular,
She doth abstract the universal kinds, 10
Which bodiless and immaterial are,
And can be only lodg'd within our minds.

Stanza 12 Doubtless, &c.

l. 2 Bodies to spirit, &c.

l. 4. As we our food, &c.

Stanza 13, l. 1 From their gross matter she abstracts their forms.

Stanza 14

Thus doth she, when from individual states
She doth abstract the universal kinds;
Which then re-clothed in divers names and fates
Steal access through our senses to our minds.

Biog. Lit., Cap. xiv, 1817, II, 12; 1847, II, Cap. i, pp. 14-15. The alteration was first noted in 1847.


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