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... Thoughts . I have presum'd farther in some Places , and added somewhat of my own where I thought my Author was deficient , and had not given his Thoughts their true Lustre , for want of Words in the Beginning of our Language . ( 510-24 ) ...
... Thoughts . I have presum'd farther in some Places , and added somewhat of my own where I thought my Author was deficient , and had not given his Thoughts their true Lustre , for want of Words in the Beginning of our Language . ( 510-24 ) ...
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... thought ' here nicely catches the redundancy of thoughts continually circling about themselves . ' Recall the fancy'd scene ' suggests both the return to a mental picture oft enjoyed , and that the scene means so much to her that it is ...
... thought ' here nicely catches the redundancy of thoughts continually circling about themselves . ' Recall the fancy'd scene ' suggests both the return to a mental picture oft enjoyed , and that the scene means so much to her that it is ...
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... thoughts of her on which he was engaged : suggesting certainly that he would not be so ready as she to dismiss the images of fancy by himself , but needs an external interruption ; and that the interruption has to be more of an ...
... thoughts of her on which he was engaged : suggesting certainly that he would not be so ready as she to dismiss the images of fancy by himself , but needs an external interruption ; and that the interruption has to be more of an ...
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