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... defire of pleafing is certain to produce , and precluded the vain expedients of foftening cenfure by apologies , or roufing attention by ab- ruptness . The epick writers have found the proemial part of the poem fuch an ad- dition to ...
... defire of pleafing is certain to produce , and precluded the vain expedients of foftening cenfure by apologies , or roufing attention by ab- ruptness . The epick writers have found the proemial part of the poem fuch an ad- dition to ...
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... de- fire . The end , therefore , which at prefent calls forth our efforts , will be found , when it is once gained ... defire which preffes through right and wrong to it's gratification , or that anxions inquietude which is justly ...
... de- fire . The end , therefore , which at prefent calls forth our efforts , will be found , when it is once gained ... defire which preffes through right and wrong to it's gratification , or that anxions inquietude which is justly ...
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... defire , fays he , has been for fome years paft , though the exccution has been accidentally diverted , and ⚫ does ftill vehemently continue , to re- ' tire myself to fome of our American Plantations ; not to feek for gold , or ...
... defire , fays he , has been for fome years paft , though the exccution has been accidentally diverted , and ⚫ does ftill vehemently continue , to re- ' tire myself to fome of our American Plantations ; not to feek for gold , or ...
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... defire , we pursue , we obtain , we are fatiated ; we defire fome- thing elfe , and begin a new purfuit . If he had proceeded in his project , and fixed his habitation in the most delight- ful part of the new world , it may be doubted ...
... defire , we pursue , we obtain , we are fatiated ; we defire fome- thing elfe , and begin a new purfuit . If he had proceeded in his project , and fixed his habitation in the most delight- ful part of the new world , it may be doubted ...
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... defire of ag- grandizing themselves by raifing their profeffion , betrays men to a thousand ridiculous and mischievous acts of fup- plantation and detraction , yet as almoft all paffions have their good as well as bad effects , it ...
... defire of ag- grandizing themselves by raifing their profeffion , betrays men to a thousand ridiculous and mischievous acts of fup- plantation and detraction , yet as almoft all paffions have their good as well as bad effects , it ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 317 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. I with this messenger will go along, Nothing to do, be sure, that may dishonour Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite.
Página 317 - With horrible convulsion to and fro He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains...
Página 415 - Nothing which reason condemns can be suitable to the dignity of the human mind. To be driven by external motives from the path which our own heart approves, to give way to...
Página 450 - It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.
Página 159 - Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows...
Página 20 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Página 318 - I not been thus exiled from light, As in the land of darkness, yet in light, To live a life half dead, a living death, And buried; but, O yet more miserable!
Página 355 - Is it not certain that the tragic and comic affections have been moved alternately, with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breast with palpitation, than those which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however think it safe to judge of works of genius, merely by the event.
Página 463 - I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth.
Página 233 - As I was looking upon the various fate of the multitude about me, I was suddenly alarmed with an admonition from, some unknown power, " Gaze not idly upon others when thou thyself art sinking.