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... idea of an orna- ment admits use , though it seems to exclude neces- sity . Whoever purposes , as it is expressed by Milton , to build the lofty rhyme , must acquaint himself with the law of poetical architecture , and take care that ...
... idea of an orna- ment admits use , though it seems to exclude neces- sity . Whoever purposes , as it is expressed by Milton , to build the lofty rhyme , must acquaint himself with the law of poetical architecture , and take care that ...
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... ideas . Samson's complaint is therefore too elabo- rate to be natural : As in the land of darkness , yet in light , To live a life half dead , a living death , And buried ; but O , yet more miserable ! Myself my sepulchre , a moving ...
... ideas . Samson's complaint is therefore too elabo- rate to be natural : As in the land of darkness , yet in light , To live a life half dead , a living death , And buried ; but O , yet more miserable ! Myself my sepulchre , a moving ...
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... ideas . The desires that predominate in our hearts are instilled by imperceptible com- munications at the time when we look upon the various scenes of the world , and the different em- ployments of men , with the neutrality of ...
... ideas . The desires that predominate in our hearts are instilled by imperceptible com- munications at the time when we look upon the various scenes of the world , and the different em- ployments of men , with the neutrality of ...
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... ideas unexpectedly together , who by some peculiar acuteness discovers resemblances in ob- jects dissimilar to common eyes , or by mixing hete- rogeneous notions dazzles the attention with sudden scintillations of conceit . A lady's wit ...
... ideas unexpectedly together , who by some peculiar acuteness discovers resemblances in ob- jects dissimilar to common eyes , or by mixing hete- rogeneous notions dazzles the attention with sudden scintillations of conceit . A lady's wit ...
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... ideas and combinations of ideas have been long in the possession of other hands ; and by restoring to every man his own , as the Ro- mans must have returned to their cots from the pos- session of the world , so the most inventive and ...
... ideas and combinations of ideas have been long in the possession of other hands ; and by restoring to every man his own , as the Ro- mans must have returned to their cots from the pos- session of the world , so the most inventive and ...
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Page 12 - So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Page 152 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, 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!
Page 12 - Out, out, hyaena ! these are thy wonted arts, And arts of every woman false like thee, To break all faith, all vows, deceive, betray, Then as repentant to submit...
Page 347 - I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. 1 have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.
Page 225 - Envy is almost the only vice which is practicable at all times, and in every place ; the only passion which can never lie quiet for want of irritation : its effects therefore are every where discoverable, and its attempts always to be dreaded.
Page 10 - I not sung and proverbed for a fool In every street? Do they not say, How well Are come upon him his deserts?
Page 233 - 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 inspect the mind of him that committed it, would be extenuated by mistake, precipitance, or negligence...
Page 111 - But the truth is, that no man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself.
Page 340 - ... yet the toil with which performance struggles after idea, is so irksome and disgusting, and so frequent is the necessity of resting below that perfection which we imagined within our reach, that seldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of his defects, and a continual resuscitation of desires which he feels himself unable to gratify.
Page 96 - Probability requires that the time of action should approach somewhat nearly to that of exhibition, and those plays will always be thought most happily conducted which crowd the greatest variety into the least space. But since it will frequently happen that some delusion must be admitted, I know not where the limits of imagination can be fixed.