The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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Page 13
... produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions not limited by exceptions , and in descriptions not descending to minuteness . It is with great propriety that ...
... produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions not limited by exceptions , and in descriptions not descending to minuteness . It is with great propriety that ...
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... produced by a voluntary deviation from nature in pursuit of something new and strange ; and that the writers fail to give delight by their desire of exciting admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general represen- tation of ...
... produced by a voluntary deviation from nature in pursuit of something new and strange ; and that the writers fail to give delight by their desire of exciting admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general represen- tation of ...
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... produce little conviction . In those which are intended to exalt the human faculties , reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging , not of things revealed , of the reality of revelation . In the verses for Reason , is a ...
... produce little conviction . In those which are intended to exalt the human faculties , reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging , not of things revealed , of the reality of revelation . In the verses for Reason , is a ...
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... produced familiarity of language , and the familiar part of language continues long the same : the dialogue of comedy , when it is transcribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The ...
... produced familiarity of language , and the familiar part of language continues long the same : the dialogue of comedy , when it is transcribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The ...
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... producing love in him , he considers them as burning - glasses made of ice . Finding himself able to live in the greatest extremities of love , he concludes the torrid zone to be habitable . Upon the dying of a tree , on which he had ...
... producing love in him , he considers them as burning - glasses made of ice . Finding himself able to live in the greatest extremities of love , he concludes the torrid zone to be habitable . Upon the dying of a tree , on which he had ...
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