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Page 123
... fancy without the censure of extravagance . The appearances of nature , and the occurrences of life , did not satiate his appetite of greatness . To paint things as they are , requires a minute attention , and employs the memory rather ...
... fancy without the censure of extravagance . The appearances of nature , and the occurrences of life , did not satiate his appetite of greatness . To paint things as they are , requires a minute attention , and employs the memory rather ...
Page 241
... fancy predominates , self - love may easily de- ceive . He might have observed , that what is good only because it ... fancy , that nothing was proposed to him in which he could not suddenly produce a thought extremely pleasant and ...
... fancy predominates , self - love may easily de- ceive . He might have observed , that what is good only because it ... fancy , that nothing was proposed to him in which he could not suddenly produce a thought extremely pleasant and ...
Page 299
... fancy frames for fancy to subdue : But , when ourselves to action we betake , It shuns the mint like gold that chymists make : How hard was then his task , at once to be What in the body natural we see ! Man's Architect distinctly did ...
... fancy frames for fancy to subdue : But , when ourselves to action we betake , It shuns the mint like gold that chymists make : How hard was then his task , at once to be What in the body natural we see ! Man's Architect distinctly did ...
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