The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate ...
... passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate ...
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... passion ; a very just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can display . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend , the ...
... passion ; a very just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can display . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend , the ...
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... passions , some were known To wish , for the defence , the crime their own . Now private pity strove with public hate , Reason with rage , and eloquence with fate . On Cowley . To him no author was unknown , Yet what he wrote was all ...
... passions , some were known To wish , for the defence , the crime their own . Now private pity strove with public hate , Reason with rage , and eloquence with fate . On Cowley . To him no author was unknown , Yet what he wrote was all ...
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... passions , and the gradual prevalence of opinions , first wil- lingly admitted , and then habitually indulged ; if objections , by being overlooked , were forgotten , and desire superinduced conviction ; he yet shared only the common ...
... passions , and the gradual prevalence of opinions , first wil- lingly admitted , and then habitually indulged ; if objections , by being overlooked , were forgotten , and desire superinduced conviction ; he yet shared only the common ...
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... passion ; for sion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions . Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy , nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius , nor tells of rough satyrs and " fauns with cloven heel . " Where there ...
... passion ; for sion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions . Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy , nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius , nor tells of rough satyrs and " fauns with cloven heel . " Where there ...
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