The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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Page 207
... fear , desire and hate , O'erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate , Where wav'ring man , betray'd by vent❜rous pride , To tread the dreary paths without a guide , As treach'rous phantoms in the mist delude , Shuns fancied ills ...
... fear , desire and hate , O'erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate , Where wav'ring man , betray'd by vent❜rous pride , To tread the dreary paths without a guide , As treach'rous phantoms in the mist delude , Shuns fancied ills ...
Page 220
... fear originally prohibits endeavours by infus- ing despair of success ; or the frequent failure of irresolute struggles , and the constant desire of avoiding labour , impress by degrees false terrors on the mind . But fear , whether ...
... fear originally prohibits endeavours by infus- ing despair of success ; or the frequent failure of irresolute struggles , and the constant desire of avoiding labour , impress by degrees false terrors on the mind . But fear , whether ...
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... fear . For fear being an apprehension of pain or death , it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain . Whatever therefore is terrible , with regard to sight , is sub- lime too , whether this cause of terror be endued with ...
... fear . For fear being an apprehension of pain or death , it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain . Whatever therefore is terrible , with regard to sight , is sub- lime too , whether this cause of terror be endued with ...
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