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Page 17
But you, of learning and religion, And virtue and such ingredients, have made A
mithridate, whose operation Keeps off, or cures what can be done or said.
Though the following lines of Donne, on the last night of the year, have
something in ...
But you, of learning and religion, And virtue and such ingredients, have made A
mithridate, whose operation Keeps off, or cures what can be done or said.
Though the following lines of Donne, on the last night of the year, have
something in ...
Page 280
He had all the forms of excellence, intellectual and moral, combined in his mind,
with endless variation; and when he had scattered on the hero of the day the
golden shower of wit and virtue, he had ready for him, whom he wished to court
on ...
He had all the forms of excellence, intellectual and moral, combined in his mind,
with endless variation; and when he had scattered on the hero of the day the
golden shower of wit and virtue, he had ready for him, whom he wished to court
on ...
Page 339
If this be true, then not only pity and terror are to be moved, as the only means to
bring us to virtue, but generally love to virtue and hatred to vice ; by shewing the
rewards of one, and punishments of the other; at least, by rendering virtue always
...
If this be true, then not only pity and terror are to be moved, as the only means to
bring us to virtue, but generally love to virtue and hatred to vice ; by shewing the
rewards of one, and punishments of the other; at least, by rendering virtue always
...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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