The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... perhaps never happened , and which , whether likely or not , he did not in- vent . So careless was this great poet of future fame , that , though he retired to ease and plenty , while he was yet little declined into the vale of years ...
... perhaps never happened , and which , whether likely or not , he did not in- vent . So careless was this great poet of future fame , that , though he retired to ease and plenty , while he was yet little declined into the vale of years ...
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... Perhaps a more smooth and accommodating spirit . of freedom in them would be more acceptable to us . Perhaps ideas of liberty might be desired more reconcilable with an arbitrary and boundless au- thority . Perhaps we might wish the ...
... Perhaps a more smooth and accommodating spirit . of freedom in them would be more acceptable to us . Perhaps ideas of liberty might be desired more reconcilable with an arbitrary and boundless au- thority . Perhaps we might wish the ...
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... perhaps the cause of it be but a privation in the subject . 2. Thus the ideas of heat and cold , light and darkness , white and black , motion and rest , are equally clear and positive ideas in the mind ; though perhaps some of the ...
... perhaps the cause of it be but a privation in the subject . 2. Thus the ideas of heat and cold , light and darkness , white and black , motion and rest , are equally clear and positive ideas in the mind ; though perhaps some of the ...
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