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Page 220
Our firmness is by the continual contemplation of misery hourly impaired ; every submission to our fear enlarges its dominion ; we not only waste that time in which the evil we dread might have been suffered and surmounted , but even ...
Our firmness is by the continual contemplation of misery hourly impaired ; every submission to our fear enlarges its dominion ; we not only waste that time in which the evil we dread might have been suffered and surmounted , but even ...
Page 371
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear . For fear being an apprehension of pain or death , it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain . Whatever therefore is terrible ...
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear . For fear being an apprehension of pain or death , it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain . Whatever therefore is terrible ...
Page 527
a But ere his death some pious doubts arise , Some simple fears , which " bold bad ” men despise ; Fain would he ask the parish - priest to prove His title certain to the joys above : For this he sends the murmuring nurse , who calls ...
a But ere his death some pious doubts arise , Some simple fears , which " bold bad ” men despise ; Fain would he ask the parish - priest to prove His title certain to the joys above : For this he sends the murmuring nurse , who calls ...
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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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