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... pleasure , or suffer the uneasiness of solitude ; for he died at the Porch - house in Chertsey , 1667 , in the 49th ... pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised ...
... pleasure , or suffer the uneasiness of solitude ; for he died at the Porch - house in Chertsey , 1667 , in the 49th ... pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised ...
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... pleasure of other minds : they never inquired what , on any occasion , they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as ...
... pleasure of other minds : they never inquired what , on any occasion , they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as ...
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... pleasure . The artifices of inversior , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is prac- tised , not by those who talk to be understood , but by ...
... pleasure . The artifices of inversior , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is prac- tised , not by those who talk to be understood , but by ...
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... pleasure of verse arises from the known measure of the lines , and uniform struc- ture of the stanzas , by which the voice is regu- lated , and the memory relieved . If the Pindaric style be , what Cowley thinks it , " the highest and ...
... pleasure of verse arises from the known measure of the lines , and uniform struc- ture of the stanzas , by which the voice is regu- lated , and the memory relieved . If the Pindaric style be , what Cowley thinks it , " the highest and ...
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Samuel Johnson. Jonson and Donne , as Dr. Hurd remarks , of pleasure . were then in the highest esteem . It is ... pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected ; that which elevates must al- ways surprise . What is ...
Samuel Johnson. Jonson and Donne , as Dr. Hurd remarks , of pleasure . were then in the highest esteem . It is ... pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected ; that which elevates must al- ways surprise . What is ...
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