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Page 44
... delight . If the continuation of the ' Davideis ' can be missed , it is for the learning that has been diffused over it , and the notes in which it had been explained . Had not his characters been depraved like every other part by ...
... delight . If the continuation of the ' Davideis ' can be missed , it is for the learning that has been diffused over it , and the notes in which it had been explained . Had not his characters been depraved like every other part by ...
Page 114
... delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of superstitious ignor- ance . The pensive man , at one time ... delight in musick ; but he seems to think that chearful notes would have obtained from Pluto a compleat dismission ...
... delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of superstitious ignor- ance . The pensive man , at one time ... delight in musick ; but he seems to think that chearful notes would have obtained from Pluto a compleat dismission ...
Page 123
... delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind . He sent his faculties out upon discovery , into worlds where only imagination can travel , and delighted to form new modes of ...
... delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind . He sent his faculties out upon discovery , into worlds where only imagination can travel , and delighted to form new modes of ...
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