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Page 536
Our observation , employed either about external sensible objects , or about the internal operations of our minds , perceived and reflected on by ourselves , is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking .
Our observation , employed either about external sensible objects , or about the internal operations of our minds , perceived and reflected on by ourselves , is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking .
Page 556
There may , indeed , be something so terrible or offensive that the horror or loathsomeness of an object may overbear the pleasure which ... and to lose itself amidst the variety of objects that offer themselves to its observation .
There may , indeed , be something so terrible or offensive that the horror or loathsomeness of an object may overbear the pleasure which ... and to lose itself amidst the variety of objects that offer themselves to its observation .
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When objects of any kind are first presented to the eye or imagination , the sentiment which attends them is obscure and confused , and the mind is , in a great measure , incapable of pronouncing concerning their merits or defects .
When objects of any kind are first presented to the eye or imagination , the sentiment which attends them is obscure and confused , and the mind is , in a great measure , incapable of pronouncing concerning their merits or defects .
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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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