The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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Page 282
... delight which this retire- ment afforded , that they to whom it was new al- ways desired that it might be perpetual ; and as those , on whom the iron gate had once closed , were never suffered to return , the effect of longer experience ...
... delight which this retire- ment afforded , that they to whom it was new al- ways desired that it might be perpetual ; and as those , on whom the iron gate had once closed , were never suffered to return , the effect of longer experience ...
Page 541
... delight , and its opposite , pain or uneasiness ; power , existence , unity . 2. Delight or uneasiness , one or other of them , join themselves to almost all our ideas both of sensation and reflection ; and there is scarce any affection ...
... delight , and its opposite , pain or uneasiness ; power , existence , unity . 2. Delight or uneasiness , one or other of them , join themselves to almost all our ideas both of sensation and reflection ; and there is scarce any affection ...
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... delight us . But as that affliction which is caused by exterior and sensible objects is stronger than the consola- tion which arises from an internal reflection , they are the effects and symptoms of sorrow that ought to predominate in ...
... delight us . But as that affliction which is caused by exterior and sensible objects is stronger than the consola- tion which arises from an internal reflection , they are the effects and symptoms of sorrow that ought to predominate in ...
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