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Page 143
... images so happily together ? It is scarcely possible to peruse a page without finding some association of images that was never found before . By the first paragraph the reader is amused , by the next he is delighted , and by a few more ...
... images so happily together ? It is scarcely possible to peruse a page without finding some association of images that was never found before . By the first paragraph the reader is amused , by the next he is delighted , and by a few more ...
Page 197
... images such as the superficies of nature readily supplies ; he has a just claim to popu- larity , because he writes to common degrees of knowledge , and is free at least from philosophical pedantry , unless perhaps the end of a song To ...
... images such as the superficies of nature readily supplies ; he has a just claim to popu- larity , because he writes to common degrees of knowledge , and is free at least from philosophical pedantry , unless perhaps the end of a song To ...
Page 326
... images either just or splendid : I am as free as Nature first made man , Ere the base laws of servitude began , When wild in woods the noble savage ran . -'Tis but because the Living death ne'er knew , They fear to prove it as a thing ...
... images either just or splendid : I am as free as Nature first made man , Ere the base laws of servitude began , When wild in woods the noble savage ran . -'Tis but because the Living death ne'er knew , They fear to prove it as a thing ...
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