 | History - 1799 - 796 pages
...imagination can at leaft conceive, and poetical terror fu:h as human ftrength and fortitude may combat. The good and evil of eternity are too ponderous for the wings of wit ; the mind finks under them in pafSfe helplelTnefs, content with calm belief and humble adoration."... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1779 - 510 pages
...imagination can at lead conceive, and poetical terrour fuch as human ftrength and fortitude may combat. The good and evil of eternity are too ponderous for the wings of wit ; the mind finks under them in paffive helpleffnefs, content with calm belief and humble adoration.'... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 280 pages
...imagination can at leaft conceive, and poetical terrour fuch as human ftrength and fortitude may combat. The good and evil of Eternity are too ponderous for the wings of wit; the mind finks un.der them in paffive helplcfihcfs, content'o 4 . -with with calm belief and humble... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...imagination can at leait conceive, and poetical terror fuch as human ftrength and fortitude may combat. The good and evil of eternity are too ponderous for the wings of wit ; the mind finks under them in pallive helpleflnefs, contentwith calm belief and humble adoration.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...imagination can at leaft conceive, and poetical terrour fuch as human ftrength and fortitude may. combat. The good and evil of Eternity are too ponderous for the wings of wit ; the mind finks under them in paflive helplefihefs, content with calm, belief and humble adoration.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...imagination can at leaft conceive, and poetical terrour fuch as human ftrength and fortitude may combat. The good and evil of Eternity are too ponderous^ for the wings of wit ; the mind links under them in pafuve helplefsnefs, content with calm belief and humble adoration.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...imagination can at lead conceive ; and poetical terrours fuch as human flrength and fortitude may combat. The good and evil of Eternity are too ponderous for the wings of wit ; the mind finks under them in paffive helpleffnefs, content with calm belief and humble adoration.... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 518 pages
...tiresome and superfluous. We shall now, therefore, consider it in another point of view : recollecting, that the good and evil of eternity are too ponderous for the wings of wit, and that it would be wise for free-thinkers themselves, were they to be morally content with calm... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...imagination can at leaft conceive, and poetical terrour fuch as human ftrength and fortitude may combat. The good and evil of Eternity are too ponderous for the wings of wit ; the mind finks under them in paflive helpleflhefs, content with calm belief and humble adoration.... | |
 | History - 1796 - 692 pages
...imagination can at leaft conceive, and poetical terror fuch as human ftrength and fortitude may combat. The good and evil of eternity are too ponderous for the wings of wit ; the mind finks under them in pafiive helplfflnels, content with calm belief and humble adoration.... | |
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The good and evil of Eternity are too ponderous for the wings of wit; the mind sinks under them in passive helplessness, content with calm belief and humble adoration. 
