Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 - English poetry |
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Page 98
... discovery determined him to quit his occupation . About this time his nurse , who had always treated him as her own son , died ; and it was natural for him to take care of those effects , which by her death were , as he imagined ...
... discovery determined him to quit his occupation . About this time his nurse , who had always treated him as her own son , died ; and it was natural for him to take care of those effects , which by her death were , as he imagined ...
Page 137
... discovered the illusion , and shewn him , what he never wished to see , his real state . He is even accused , after having lulled his imagina- tion with those ideal opiates , of having tried the same experiment upon his conscience ; and ...
... discovered the illusion , and shewn him , what he never wished to see , his real state . He is even accused , after having lulled his imagina- tion with those ideal opiates , of having tried the same experiment upon his conscience ; and ...
Page 273
... discovered , or been shewn , that the truth which subsisted in spite of reason could not be very clear , he substituted And spite of pride , in erring reason's spite . To such oversights will the most vigorous mind be liable , when it ...
... discovered , or been shewn , that the truth which subsisted in spite of reason could not be very clear , he substituted And spite of pride , in erring reason's spite . To such oversights will the most vigorous mind be liable , when it ...
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