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He that thus breaks his life into parts , will find in himself a desire to distinguish every stage of his existence by some improvement , and delight himself with the approach of the day of recollection , as of the time which is to ...
He that thus breaks his life into parts , will find in himself a desire to distinguish every stage of his existence by some improvement , and delight himself with the approach of the day of recollection , as of the time which is to ...
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He was fired with the desire of doing something , though he knew not yet with distinctness , either end or means . know not what I want , is the cause of my complaint ; if I had any known want , I should have a certain wish ; that wish ...
He was fired with the desire of doing something , though he knew not yet with distinctness , either end or means . know not what I want , is the cause of my complaint ; if I had any known want , I should have a certain wish ; that wish ...
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We shall have a strong desire for a woman of no remarkable beauty ; whilst the greatest beauty in men , or in other animals , though it causes love , yet excites nothing at all of desire . Which shows that beauty , and the passion ...
We shall have a strong desire for a woman of no remarkable beauty ; whilst the greatest beauty in men , or in other animals , though it causes love , yet excites nothing at all of desire . Which shows that beauty , and the passion ...
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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
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| Title | The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical Essays |
| Editor | John L. Mahoney |
| Publisher | D. C. Heath, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0669023213, 9780669023213 |
| Length | 765 pages |
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