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Page 211
... reader shall lay aside . The subject of the disputation is not piety , but the motives to piety ; that of the description is not God , but the works of God . Contemplative piety , or the intercourse between God and the human soul ...
... reader shall lay aside . The subject of the disputation is not piety , but the motives to piety ; that of the description is not God , but the works of God . Contemplative piety , or the intercourse between God and the human soul ...
Page 334
... reader may be weary , though the critick may commend . Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention . That book is good in vain , which the reader throws away . He ...
... reader may be weary , though the critick may commend . Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention . That book is good in vain , which the reader throws away . He ...
Page 343
... reader with two syllables more than he expected . The effect of the Triplet is the same : the ear has been accustomed to expect a new rhyme in every couplet ; but is on a sudden surprised with three rhymes together , to which the reader ...
... reader with two syllables more than he expected . The effect of the Triplet is the same : the ear has been accustomed to expect a new rhyme in every couplet ; but is on a sudden surprised with three rhymes together , to which the reader ...
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