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... please the multitude , no man , perhaps , has a right , in things ad- mitting of gradation and comparifon , to throw the whole blame upon his judges , and to- tally to exclude diffidence and fhame by a haughty consciousness of his own ...
... please the multitude , no man , perhaps , has a right , in things ad- mitting of gradation and comparifon , to throw the whole blame upon his judges , and to- tally to exclude diffidence and fhame by a haughty consciousness of his own ...
Page 95
... please at once . The pleasures of the mind imply fomething fudden and unex- pected ; that which elevates must always fur- prife . What is perceived by flow degrees . may gratify us with confcioufnefs of im- provement , but will never ...
... please at once . The pleasures of the mind imply fomething fudden and unex- pected ; that which elevates must always fur- prife . What is perceived by flow degrees . may gratify us with confcioufnefs of im- provement , but will never ...
Page 117
... please better . His poetical imita- tion of Tully on " Old Age " has neither the clearness of profe , nor the fpriteliness of poetry . The " ftrength of Denham , " which Pope fo emphatically mentions , is to be found in many lines and ...
... please better . His poetical imita- tion of Tully on " Old Age " has neither the clearness of profe , nor the fpriteliness of poetry . The " ftrength of Denham , " which Pope fo emphatically mentions , is to be found in many lines and ...
Page 139
... , though it did not please , was yet fufficiently fafe , and Milton ftaid two months more at Rome , and went on to Flo- rence without moleftation . 3 From From Florence he vifited Lucca . He after- wards went MILTON . 136 .
... , though it did not please , was yet fufficiently fafe , and Milton ftaid two months more at Rome , and went on to Flo- rence without moleftation . 3 From From Florence he vifited Lucca . He after- wards went MILTON . 136 .
Page 248
... please when pleafure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to aftonish . He feems to have been well acquainted with his own genius , and to know what it was that Nature had beftowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the ...
... please when pleafure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to aftonish . He feems to have been well acquainted with his own genius , and to know what it was that Nature had beftowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the ...
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