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... whatever he may talk of his own inflammability , and the variety of cha- racters by which his heart was divided , he in * Barnefii Anacreontem . Dr. J. reality reality was in love but once , and then never 8 COWLEY ,
... whatever he may talk of his own inflammability , and the variety of cha- racters by which his heart was divided , he in * Barnefii Anacreontem . Dr. J. reality reality was in love but once , and then never 8 COWLEY ,
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Samuel Johnson. reality was in love but once , and then never had refolution to tell his paffion ,. This confideration cannot but abate , in fome measure , the reader's efteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is na ...
Samuel Johnson. reality was in love but once , and then never had refolution to tell his paffion ,. This confideration cannot but abate , in fome measure , the reader's efteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is na ...
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... once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its firft production , ac- knowledged to be juft ; if it be that which he that never found it wonders how he miffed ; to wit of this kind the metaphyfical poets have ...
... once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its firft production , ac- knowledged to be juft ; if it be that which he that never found it wonders how he miffed ; to wit of this kind the metaphyfical poets have ...
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... once fills the whole mind , and of which the firft effect is fudden afto- nishment , and the fecond rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by difperfion . Great thoughts are always general , and ...
... once fills the whole mind , and of which the firft effect is fudden afto- nishment , and the fecond rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by difperfion . Great thoughts are always general , and ...
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... Once dead , how can it be , Death fhould a thing so pleasant seem to thee , That thou fhould't come to live it o'er again . in me ?. A Lover's heart , a hand grenado . Wo to her ftubborn heart , if once mine come Into the self fame room ...
... Once dead , how can it be , Death fhould a thing so pleasant seem to thee , That thou fhould't come to live it o'er again . in me ?. A Lover's heart , a hand grenado . Wo to her ftubborn heart , if once mine come Into the self fame room ...
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