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... numbers who have little recourse to the refinements of speculation , but who yet live at peace with themselves , by means which require less understanding or less attention . When their hearts are burthened with the consciousness of a ...
... numbers who have little recourse to the refinements of speculation , but who yet live at peace with themselves , by means which require less understanding or less attention . When their hearts are burthened with the consciousness of a ...
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... numbers unworthy of his notice , for he knew with how minute attention the ancient critics considered the disposition of syl- lables , and had himself given hopes of some metri- cal observations upon the great Roman poet ; but being the ...
... numbers unworthy of his notice , for he knew with how minute attention the ancient critics considered the disposition of syl- lables , and had himself given hopes of some metri- cal observations upon the great Roman poet ; but being the ...
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... numbers to the same objects . He has given in two passages very minute descriptions of angelic beauty ; but though the images are nearly the same , the numbers will be found upon comparison very different . And now a stripling cherub he ...
... numbers to the same objects . He has given in two passages very minute descriptions of angelic beauty ; but though the images are nearly the same , the numbers will be found upon comparison very different . And now a stripling cherub he ...
Contents
Peevishness equally wretched and offensivethe Character of Tetrica | 74 |
The World never known but by a Change of Fortune the History of Melissa | 75 |
The Arts by which bad Men are reconciled to them selves | 76 |
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