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... mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the for ... minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his ...
... mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the for ... minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his ...
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... mind of the greatest vi- gour and activity . Two years after his settlement at Cambridge he published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose ac- quaintance all his cotemporaries seem to have been ...
... mind of the greatest vi- gour and activity . Two years after his settlement at Cambridge he published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose ac- quaintance all his cotemporaries seem to have been ...
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... mind ( whereby he gained the ill - will of some of his friends ) he went into France again , having made a copy of verses on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be discovered ...
... mind ( whereby he gained the ill - will of some of his friends ) he went into France again , having made a copy of verses on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be discovered ...
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... 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 consist in pos- itions not ...
... 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 consist in pos- itions not ...
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... mind at leisure , and some as they would crackle in the fire . It is the odd fate of were called forth by different occasions , with this thought to be the worse for being true . great variety of style and sentiment , from bur- The bay ...
... mind at leisure , and some as they would crackle in the fire . It is the odd fate of were called forth by different occasions , with this thought to be the worse for being true . great variety of style and sentiment , from bur- The bay ...
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