Major English Writers of the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1Harold E. Pagliaro Free Press, 1969 - English literature |
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... nature and the ancients provides a good example of this fusing power . For the eighteenth century , the term nature did not refer primarily to the world of woods , ocean , and sky , but to psychological characteristics and physical laws ...
... nature and the ancients provides a good example of this fusing power . For the eighteenth century , the term nature did not refer primarily to the world of woods , ocean , and sky , but to psychological characteristics and physical laws ...
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... Nature , up to Nature's God ; Pursues that Chain which links th'immense design , Joins heav'n and earth , and mortal and divine ; Sees , that no Being any bliss can know , But touches some above , and some below ; Learns , from this ...
... Nature , up to Nature's God ; Pursues that Chain which links th'immense design , Joins heav'n and earth , and mortal and divine ; Sees , that no Being any bliss can know , But touches some above , and some below ; Learns , from this ...
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... nature will suffer nothing from the delusions of hope , or importunities of desire : he will receive and re- ject with equability of temper ; and act or suffer as the reason of things shall alter- nately prescribe . Other men may amuse ...
... nature will suffer nothing from the delusions of hope , or importunities of desire : he will receive and re- ject with equability of temper ; and act or suffer as the reason of things shall alter- nately prescribe . Other men may amuse ...
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John Dryden 16311700 | 4 |
ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL | 11 |
MAC FLECKNOE | 37 |
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