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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. "
The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature - Page 358
edited by - 1779
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The Annual Register, Volume 34

History - 1799 - 796 pages
...poetical pleafure mull be fuch as human imagination can at leaft conceive, and poetical terror fu:h as human ftrength and fortitude may combat. The good...for the wings of wit ; the mind finks under them in pafSfe helplelTnefs, content with calm belief and humble adoration." We could feleft here and there...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 280 pages
...the genuine fources of poetry ; but poetical pleafure muft be fuch as human imagination can at leaft conceive, and poetical terrour fuch as human ftrength...wings of wit; the mind finks un.der them in paffive helplcfihcfs, content'o 4 . -with with calm belief and humble adoration. Known truths, however, may...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...muft be fuch as human -imagination can at leaft conceive, and poetical terrour fuch as human flrength and fortitude may combat. The good and evil of Eternity...wings of wit; the mind finks under them in paffive helplcflhefs, content o 4 with 200 MILTON, with calm belief and humble adoration. Known truths, however,...
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Annual Register, Volume 22

Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...but poetical pleafure mutt be fuch as human imagination can at leait conceive, and poetical terror fuch as human ftrength and fortitude may combat. The...for the wings of wit ; the mind finks under them in pallive helpleflnefs, contentwith calm belief and humble adoration. Known truths, however, may take...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...the genuine fources of poetry ; but poetical pleafurc muft be fuch as human imagination can at leaft conceive, and poetical terrour fuch as human ftrength...for the wings of wit ; the mind finks under them in paflive helplefihefs, content with calm, belief and humble adoration. Known truths, however, may take...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 478 pages
...the genuine fburces of poetry ; but poetical pleafure muft be fuch as human imagination can at leaft conceive, and poetical terrour fuch as human ftrength...wings of wit ; the mind finks under them in paffive helpleflhefs, content with Łalm belief and humble adoration. Known truths, however, may take a different...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...the genuine fources pf poetry ; but poetical pleafure muft be fuch as human imagination can at leaft conceive, and poetical terrour fuch as human ftrength...are too ponderous^ for the wings of wit ; the mind links under them in pafuve helplefsnefs, content with calm belief and humble adoration. Known truths,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...poetical terrour fuch as human ftrcngth and fortitude may combat. The good and evil of Eternity arc too ponderous for the wings of wit ; the mind finks under them in paffive paflive helplefsnefs, content with calm belief and humble adoration. Known truths, however, may take...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets,: With Critical ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - Poets, English - 1790 - 508 pages
...but poetical pleafure rnufl be fuch as human imagination can at leaft couceive, and poetical terrours fuch as human ftrength. and fortitude may combat....wings of wit; the mind finks under them in paffive helpleflhefs, content with calm belief and humble adoration;. Known truths, however, may take a different...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...muft be fuch as human imagination can at lead conceive ; and poetical terrours fuch as human flrength and fortitude may combat. The good and evil of Eternity...helpleffnefs, content with calm belief and humble adoration. Known truths, however, may take a different appearance, and be conveyed to the mind by a new train...
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