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... beauty in this Essay be uncom- monly transcendent and peculiar , it is brevity of diction ; which , in a few instances , and those perhaps pardonable , has occasioned obscurity . It is hardly to be imagined how much sense , how much ...
... beauty in this Essay be uncom- monly transcendent and peculiar , it is brevity of diction ; which , in a few instances , and those perhaps pardonable , has occasioned obscurity . It is hardly to be imagined how much sense , how much ...
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... beauty : that as all parts in an animal are not eyes ; and as in a city , comedy , or picture , all ranks , characters , and colours , are not equal or alike ; even so excesses and contrary quali- ties contribute to the proportion and ...
... beauty : that as all parts in an animal are not eyes ; and as in a city , comedy , or picture , all ranks , characters , and colours , are not equal or alike ; even so excesses and contrary quali- ties contribute to the proportion and ...
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... beauty , and effect . That this is the true construction of the poem will , however , more clearly appear from considering that portion of it , in which the poet positively asserts the free agency , and responsibility of man . This is ...
... beauty , and effect . That this is the true construction of the poem will , however , more clearly appear from considering that portion of it , in which the poet positively asserts the free agency , and responsibility of man . This is ...
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... beauty and philosophic exactness . The system of the Universe is a combination of natural and moral fitnesses , as the human system is of body and spirit . By the strong connexions , therefore , the poet alluded to the natural part ...
... beauty and philosophic exactness . The system of the Universe is a combination of natural and moral fitnesses , as the human system is of body and spirit . By the strong connexions , therefore , the poet alluded to the natural part ...
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... beauty and perfection : but " ' Intellectual Pride , ” the subject of so continued an invective through this Essay , being confined to a few , cannot be so dangerous to general morality , as the contrary extreme . This observation ...
... beauty and perfection : but " ' Intellectual Pride , ” the subject of so continued an invective through this Essay , being confined to a few , cannot be so dangerous to general morality , as the contrary extreme . This observation ...
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