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... present state of natural knowledge , and engaged me , by an appearance of doubt and op- position , in the explication and defence of the Newtonian philosophy . The consciousness of my own abilities roused me from depression , and long ...
... present state of natural knowledge , and engaged me , by an appearance of doubt and op- position , in the explication and defence of the Newtonian philosophy . The consciousness of my own abilities roused me from depression , and long ...
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... present occasion . sunk into profound meditation , revolved the cha- racters of the heroines of old , considered whatever the poets have sung in their praise , and after having borrowed and invented , chosen and rejected a thou- sand ...
... present occasion . sunk into profound meditation , revolved the cha- racters of the heroines of old , considered whatever the poets have sung in their praise , and after having borrowed and invented , chosen and rejected a thou- sand ...
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... present , that the procmial lines of a poem , in which the general subject is propo- sed , must be void of glitter and embellishment . " The first lines of PARADISE LOST , " says Ad- dison , are perhaps as plain , simple , and una ...
... present , that the procmial lines of a poem , in which the general subject is propo- sed , must be void of glitter and embellishment . " The first lines of PARADISE LOST , " says Ad- dison , are perhaps as plain , simple , and una ...
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... present pain , for the sake of obviating evil yet unfelt , or securing advantage in time to come . What is distant is in itself ob- scure , and , when we have no wish to see it , easily escapes our notice , or takes such a form as ...
... present pain , for the sake of obviating evil yet unfelt , or securing advantage in time to come . What is distant is in itself ob- scure , and , when we have no wish to see it , easily escapes our notice , or takes such a form as ...
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... present interest than the fortune of those who have been long lost in the grave , and from whom nothing now can be hoped or feared . Yet to rouse the zeal of a true antiquary , little more is necessary than to mention a name which ...
... present interest than the fortune of those who have been long lost in the grave , and from whom nothing now can be hoped or feared . Yet to rouse the zeal of a true antiquary , little more is necessary than to mention a name which ...
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Page 67 - Come, thick night I And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes; Nor Heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold I
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Page 160 - who have neither the gladness of prosperity nor the calm of innocence. Whoever considers the weakness both of himself and others, will not long want persuasives to forgiveness. We know not to what degree of malignity any injury is to be imputed ; or how much its guilt, if we were to
Page 162 - seriousness and reflection, he must become despicable in his own eyes, and shrink with shame from the remembrance of his cowardice and folly. Of him that hopes to be forgiven, it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is therefore superfluous to urge any other motive. On
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Page 284 - away, the gay smile of alacrity disappears, we are compelled to implore severer powers, and trust the event to patience and constancy. When once our labour has begun, the comfort that enables us to endure it is the prospect of its end ; for though in every long work there are some
Page 68 - its office, and start back from the breast which he is preparing to violate. Yet this sentiment is weakened by the name of an instrument used by butchers and cooks in the meanest employments ; we do not immediately conceive that any crime of importance is to be committed with a knife
Page 264 - It i» not therefore from this world, that any ray of comfort can proceed, to cheer the gloom of the last hour. But futurity has still its prospects; there is yet happiness in reserve, which, if we transfer our attention to it, will support us in the pains of disease, and the languor of decay.