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... passion . we 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 to solicit reci- procal regard by an elaborate ...
... passion . we 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 to solicit reci- procal regard by an elaborate ...
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... passion ; a very just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can dis- play . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend , the ...
... passion ; a very just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can dis- play . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend , the ...
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... passions , and the gradual prevalence of opinions , first willingly admitted , and then habitually indulged ; if objections , by being overlooked , were forgotten , and desire su- perinduced conviction ; he yet shared only the common ...
... passions , and the gradual prevalence of opinions , first willingly admitted , and then habitually indulged ; if objections , by being overlooked , were forgotten , and desire su- perinduced conviction ; he yet shared only the common ...
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... passion ; for passion runs not after re - marked , merely to show how objects derive their mote allusions and obscure opinions . Passion colours from the mind , by representing the oper- plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy , nor ...
... passion ; for passion runs not after re - marked , merely to show how objects derive their mote allusions and obscure opinions . Passion colours from the mind , by representing the oper- plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy , nor ...
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... passion , without anxiety . The song of Comus has airiness and jollity ; but what may recommend Milton's morals as well as his poetry , the invitations to pleasure are so general , that they excite no distinct images of corrupt ...
... passion , without anxiety . The song of Comus has airiness and jollity ; but what may recommend Milton's morals as well as his poetry , the invitations to pleasure are so general , that they excite no distinct images of corrupt ...
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Addison Æneid afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censure character Charles Dryden composition considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence Dorset Dryden Duke Dunciad Earl elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay excellence faults favour friends genius Georgics honour Hudibras Iliad images imagination imitation kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Halifax ment mentioned Milton mind nature never night Night Thoughts nihil numbers observed occasion once opinion panegyric Paradise Lost passage passion performance perhaps Pindar play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise published Queen racter reader reason received remarks reputation rhyme satire Savage says seems sent sentiments sometimes supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thing thought tion told tragedy translation verses Virgil virtue Waller whigs write written wrote Young