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... once , and then never had resolution to tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover ...
... once , and then never had resolution to tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover ...
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... once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production , acknow- ledged to be just ; if it be that which he that never found it wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have ...
... once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production , acknow- ledged to be just ; if it be that which he that never found it wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have ...
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... once fills the whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and ...
... once fills the whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and ...
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... Once dead , how can it be , Death should a thing so pleasant seem to thee , That thou should'st come to live it o'er again in me ? A LOVER'S HEART , A HAND GRENADO . Wo to her stubborn heart , if once mine come Into the self - same room ...
... Once dead , how can it be , Death should a thing so pleasant seem to thee , That thou should'st come to live it o'er again in me ? A LOVER'S HEART , A HAND GRENADO . Wo to her stubborn heart , if once mine come Into the self - same room ...
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... once an egg in his mind , he cannot forbear to show us that he knows what an egg contains : The same thought is more generally , and there - larity of numbers is the very thing which makes fore more poetically expressed by Casimir , a ...
... once an egg in his mind , he cannot forbear to show us that he knows what an egg contains : The same thought is more generally , and there - larity of numbers is the very thing which makes fore more poetically expressed by Casimir , a ...
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