Reflection: A Poem, in Four Cantos ...R. Cruttwell, 1790 - 278 pages |
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... particular requifition of nature , it is hoped it will be excufed . We have half - witted , half - bred , half - begot , and might therefore , methinks , have had this half where the whole feems fo defirable , and is fo great in nature ...
... particular requifition of nature , it is hoped it will be excufed . We have half - witted , half - bred , half - begot , and might therefore , methinks , have had this half where the whole feems fo defirable , and is fo great in nature ...
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... particular , and where it should possess it : -In short , with a person as Nymph - like , and as completely formed as Nature could effect , with attractiveness really nameless , and a certain gracefulness quite undefineable ; what ...
... particular , and where it should possess it : -In short , with a person as Nymph - like , and as completely formed as Nature could effect , with attractiveness really nameless , and a certain gracefulness quite undefineable ; what ...
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... particular sciences , ( which seems almost like particular infpiration in those men , whether in geometry , mechanics , figures , & c . of which one hears of fo many instances in obscure men who know and feel nothing elfe ) but to those ...
... particular sciences , ( which seems almost like particular infpiration in those men , whether in geometry , mechanics , figures , & c . of which one hears of fo many instances in obscure men who know and feel nothing elfe ) but to those ...
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... particular in his own favour be overlooked ; and why ? because nature and intereft draw forth all thofe faculties that are to befriend themselves : what befriends you , or truth alone , is not of their competency . See too , how a man ...
... particular in his own favour be overlooked ; and why ? because nature and intereft draw forth all thofe faculties that are to befriend themselves : what befriends you , or truth alone , is not of their competency . See too , how a man ...
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... fay , feems little known , and is indeed curious , as well as explanatory to the poetry , this note has been thought requifite to the explanation of the particular fact . Nay , Nay , precipices , breaks , and rock , No [ 76 ]
... fay , feems little known , and is indeed curious , as well as explanatory to the poetry , this note has been thought requifite to the explanation of the particular fact . Nay , Nay , precipices , breaks , and rock , No [ 76 ]
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Page 277 - And must we spectacles apply, To view what hurts our naked eye ? Sir, if it be your wisdom's aim To make me merrier than I am ; I'll be all night at your devotion — Come on, friend ; broach the pleasing notion : But, if you would depress my thought, Your system is not worth a groat— For Plato's fancies what care I?
Page 118 - Celia's chamber, As straw and paper are by amber. If we sit down to play or set, (Suppose at ombre or basset,} Let people call us cheats or fools, Our cards and we are equal tools. We sure in vain the cards condemn : Ourselves...
Page 50 - Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.