An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... should not be able to discover perfection and order in every instance ; because , in an infinity of things mutually relative , a mind which fees not infinitely , can see nothing fully . This doctrine was inculcated by Plato and the ...
... should not be able to discover perfection and order in every instance ; because , in an infinity of things mutually relative , a mind which fees not infinitely , can see nothing fully . This doctrine was inculcated by Plato and the ...
Page 65
... should know the ends and ufes when instead of feeing to the highest pendants , we fee only fome lower deck , and are in this dark cafe of flesh , confined even to the hold and meanest station of the veffel * . " I have inferted this ...
... should know the ends and ufes when instead of feeing to the highest pendants , we fee only fome lower deck , and are in this dark cafe of flesh , confined even to the hold and meanest station of the veffel * . " I have inferted this ...
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... that the fpecies of creatures should also , by gentle degrees , defcend to us downwards : which if it be probable , we have reafon then to * Ver . 235 . be be perfuaded , that there are far more species of 74 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... that the fpecies of creatures should also , by gentle degrees , defcend to us downwards : which if it be probable , we have reafon then to * Ver . 235 . be be perfuaded , that there are far more species of 74 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 90
... should be restrained in a great measure , by a constant refolution of bearing always in our minds the lovely fide of every character * . The compleatly evil are as rare as the perfectly virtuous , there is something amiable almost in ...
... should be restrained in a great measure , by a constant refolution of bearing always in our minds the lovely fide of every character * . The compleatly evil are as rare as the perfectly virtuous , there is something amiable almost in ...
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... should it not have been fo or- dered ? Where is the lofs in such a species ? Or what is man the worfe for that defect , amidst such large fupplies ? Does not this defect engage him the more ftrongly to fociety , and force him to own ...
... should it not have been fo or- dered ? Where is the lofs in such a species ? Or what is man the worfe for that defect , amidst such large fupplies ? Does not this defect engage him the more ftrongly to fociety , and force him to own ...
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