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... mind not yet called forth to action can display . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend the qualities of his companion ; but when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , and diverts his sorrow by imagining how ...
... mind not yet called forth to action can display . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend the qualities of his companion ; but when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , and diverts his sorrow by imagining how ...
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... mind by a new train of intermediate images . This Milton has undertaken , and performed with pregnancy and vigour of mind peculiar to himself . Whoever considers the few radical positions which the Scriptures afforded him , will wonder ...
... mind by a new train of intermediate images . This Milton has undertaken , and performed with pregnancy and vigour of mind peculiar to himself . Whoever considers the few radical positions which the Scriptures afforded him , will wonder ...
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... mind must feel at the perusal of Dryden's pre- faces and Rymer's discourses . With Dryden we are wandering in quest of Truth ; whom we find , if we find her at all , dressed in the graces of elegance , and if we miss her , the labour of ...
... mind must feel at the perusal of Dryden's pre- faces and Rymer's discourses . With Dryden we are wandering in quest of Truth ; whom we find , if we find her at all , dressed in the graces of elegance , and if we miss her , the labour of ...
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