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By this abruption , posterity lost more instruction than 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 .
By this abruption , posterity lost more instruction than 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 .
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mower ; then casts his eyes about him over scenes of smiling plenty , and looks up to the distant tower , the resi- dence of some fair inhabitant ; thus he pursues rural gaiety through a day of labour or of play , and delights himself ...
mower ; then casts his eyes about him over scenes of smiling plenty , and looks up to the distant tower , the resi- dence of some fair inhabitant ; thus he pursues rural gaiety through a day of labour or of play , and delights himself ...
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Milton's 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 ...
Milton's 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 ...
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