Eighteenth-century English LiteratureGeoffrey Tillotson, Paul Fussell, Marshall Waingrow A survey of prose, poetry, and drama from the Restoration to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Treats major authors in depth but also includes lesser but important writers to give a completer picture of the century. |
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Page 157
... Heaven wou'd soar : And wou'd not be Oblig'd to God for more . Vain , wretched Creature , how art thou misled To think thy Wit these God - like Notions bred ! These Truths are not the product of thy Mind , But dropt from Heaven , and of ...
... Heaven wou'd soar : And wou'd not be Oblig'd to God for more . Vain , wretched Creature , how art thou misled To think thy Wit these God - like Notions bred ! These Truths are not the product of thy Mind , But dropt from Heaven , and of ...
Page 247
... Heaven of what is his unquestion'd Duty to do in such a Case ; I mean as to going away from , or staying in the Place where we dwell , when visited with an infectious Distemper . It came very warmly into my Mind , one Morning , as I was ...
... Heaven of what is his unquestion'd Duty to do in such a Case ; I mean as to going away from , or staying in the Place where we dwell , when visited with an infectious Distemper . It came very warmly into my Mind , one Morning , as I was ...
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... heaven - ward flame , The sweetest far of SCOTIA's holy lays : Compar'd with these , Italian trills are tame ; The tickl'd ears no heart - felt raptures raise ; Nae unison hae they , with our CREATOR'S praise . XIV . The priest - like ...
... heaven - ward flame , The sweetest far of SCOTIA's holy lays : Compar'd with these , Italian trills are tame ; The tickl'd ears no heart - felt raptures raise ; Nae unison hae they , with our CREATOR'S praise . XIV . The priest - like ...
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