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... effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors ; a ... effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and ...
... effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors ; a ... effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and ...
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... effect of a lover's name upon glass : My name engrav'd herein Doth contribute my firmness to this glass ; Which , ever since that charm , hath been As hard as that which grav'd it was . Their conceits were sometimes slight and trifling ...
... effect of a lover's name upon glass : My name engrav'd herein Doth contribute my firmness to this glass ; Which , ever since that charm , hath been As hard as that which grav'd it was . Their conceits were sometimes slight and trifling ...
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... effect : the whole system of life , while the Theocracy was yet visible , has an appearance so different from all other scenes of human action , that the reader of the Sacred Volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of ...
... effect : the whole system of life , while the Theocracy was yet visible , has an appearance so different from all other scenes of human action , that the reader of the Sacred Volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of ...
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... effect , at least to our ears , will appear by a passage , in which every reader will lament to see just and noble thoughts defrauded of their praise by inelegance of language : • Where honour or where conscience does not blind , No ...
... effect , at least to our ears , will appear by a passage , in which every reader will lament to see just and noble thoughts defrauded of their praise by inelegance of language : • Where honour or where conscience does not blind , No ...
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... effect . Of triplets in his Davideis he makes no use , and perhaps did not at first think them allowable ; but he appears afterwards to have changed his mind , for in the verses on the government of Cromwell he inserts them liberally ...
... effect . Of triplets in his Davideis he makes no use , and perhaps did not at first think them allowable ; but he appears afterwards to have changed his mind , for in the verses on the government of Cromwell he inserts them liberally ...
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