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Page 109
There all the learned shall at the labour stand , And Douglas lend his soft , obstetric hand . " The goddess smiling seemed to give consent ; So back to Pollio , hand in hand , they went . Then thick as locusts black'ning all the ground ...
There all the learned shall at the labour stand , And Douglas lend his soft , obstetric hand . " The goddess smiling seemed to give consent ; So back to Pollio , hand in hand , they went . Then thick as locusts black'ning all the ground ...
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Nature's kindling breath Must fire the chosen genius ; Nature's hand Must string his nerves , and imp his eagle - wings , Impatient of the painful steep , to soar High as the summit ; there to breathe at large Ethereal air , with bards ...
Nature's kindling breath Must fire the chosen genius ; Nature's hand Must string his nerves , and imp his eagle - wings , Impatient of the painful steep , to soar High as the summit ; there to breathe at large Ethereal air , with bards ...
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... at the same time , may produce the idea of cold by one hand , and of heat by the other ; whereas it is impossible ... is in our hands , to be nothing but a certain sort and degree of motion in the minute particles of our nerves or ...
... at the same time , may produce the idea of cold by one hand , and of heat by the other ; whereas it is impossible ... is in our hands , to be nothing but a certain sort and degree of motion in the minute particles of our nerves or ...
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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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