The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 55–56. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... those pleasures which it affords . All the primary plea- fures of the imagination result from the perception of greatness , or wonderfulness , or beauty in objects . The pleasure from greatnefs , with its final caufe . Pleasure from ...
... those pleasures which it affords . All the primary plea- fures of the imagination result from the perception of greatness , or wonderfulness , or beauty in objects . The pleasure from greatnefs , with its final caufe . Pleasure from ...
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... those flowery joys with which the hand Of lavish fancy paints each flattering scene Where beauty feems to dwell , nor once enquire Where is the fanction of eternal truth , Or where the feal of undeceitful good , To fave your search from ...
... those flowery joys with which the hand Of lavish fancy paints each flattering scene Where beauty feems to dwell , nor once enquire Where is the fanction of eternal truth , Or where the feal of undeceitful good , To fave your search from ...
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... Those monkish horrors : then in light divine Disclose the Elyfian profpect , where the steps Of those whom nature charms , through blooming walks , Through fragrant mountains and poetic ftreams , 410 Amid the train of Sages , Heroes ...
... Those monkish horrors : then in light divine Disclose the Elyfian profpect , where the steps Of those whom nature charms , through blooming walks , Through fragrant mountains and poetic ftreams , 410 Amid the train of Sages , Heroes ...
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... those external fcenes To move thy wonder now . For what are all The forms which brute , unconscious matter wears , Greatness of bulk , or fymmetry of parts ? Not reaching to the heart , foon feeble grows The fuperficial impulse ; dull ...
... those external fcenes To move thy wonder now . For what are all The forms which brute , unconscious matter wears , Greatness of bulk , or fymmetry of parts ? Not reaching to the heart , foon feeble grows The fuperficial impulse ; dull ...
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... those delights which at a different hour Would pass unheeded . Fair the face of spring , When rural fongs and odours wake the motn , To every eye ; but how much more to his Round whom the bed of fickness long diffus'd Its melancholy ...
... those delights which at a different hour Would pass unheeded . Fair the face of spring , When rural fongs and odours wake the motn , To every eye ; but how much more to his Round whom the bed of fickness long diffus'd Its melancholy ...
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