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... shade of oblivion , and knew himself to be as much out of the power of a griping officer , as any other man . How the question was determined is not known . Milton would hardly have contended , but that he knew himself to have right on ...
... shade of oblivion , and knew himself to be as much out of the power of a griping officer , as any other man . How the question was determined is not known . Milton would hardly have contended , but that he knew himself to have right on ...
Page 70
... shades , of vice and virtue ; from policy , and the practice of life , he has to learn the discriminations of character , and the tendency of the passions , either single or combined ; and physiology must supply him with illustrations ...
... shades , of vice and virtue ; from policy , and the practice of life , he has to learn the discriminations of character , and the tendency of the passions , either single or combined ; and physiology must supply him with illustrations ...
Page 86
... shades of character , nor the combinations of concurring , or the perplexity of con- tending passions . He had read much , and knew what books could teach ; but had mingled little in the world , and was deficient in the knowledge which ...
... shades of character , nor the combinations of concurring , or the perplexity of con- tending passions . He had read much , and knew what books could teach ; but had mingled little in the world , and was deficient in the knowledge which ...
Page 97
... , Where , tangled round the jealous steep , Strange shades o'erbrow the vallies deep , And holy Genii guard the rock , Its glooms embrown ENCOMIUMS UPON MILTON . 97 From Gray's Progress of Poesy From Collins's Ode on the Poetical Character.
... , Where , tangled round the jealous steep , Strange shades o'erbrow the vallies deep , And holy Genii guard the rock , Its glooms embrown ENCOMIUMS UPON MILTON . 97 From Gray's Progress of Poesy From Collins's Ode on the Poetical Character.
Page 98
... shades retreating , With many a vow from Hope's aspiring tongue , My trembling feet his guiding steps pursue ; In vain : -Such bliss to one alone Of all the sons of Soul was known ; And Heaven and Fancy , kindred Powers , Have now o ...
... shades retreating , With many a vow from Hope's aspiring tongue , My trembling feet his guiding steps pursue ; In vain : -Such bliss to one alone Of all the sons of Soul was known ; And Heaven and Fancy , kindred Powers , Have now o ...
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.