The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 55–56. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... truth to the understanding . These properties Mr. Addison had reduced to the three general claffes of greatness , novelty , and beauty ; and into these we may analyse every object , however complex , which , properly speaking , is ...
... truth to the understanding . These properties Mr. Addison had reduced to the three general claffes of greatness , novelty , and beauty ; and into these we may analyse every object , however complex , which , properly speaking , is ...
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... truth and good , applied to the conduct of life . Invitation to the study of moral philofophy . The different de- grees of beauty in different fpecies of objects : colour ; fhape ; natural concretes ; vegetables ; ani- mals ; the mind ...
... truth and good , applied to the conduct of life . Invitation to the study of moral philofophy . The different de- grees of beauty in different fpecies of objects : colour ; fhape ; natural concretes ; vegetables ; ani- mals ; the mind ...
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... Truth ; and where Truth deigns to come , Her fifter Liberty will not be far . Be prefent all ye Genii , who conduct The wandering footsteps of the youthful bard , New to your springs and shades : who touch his ear With finer founds who ...
... Truth ; and where Truth deigns to come , Her fifter Liberty will not be far . Be prefent all ye Genii , who conduct The wandering footsteps of the youthful bard , New to your springs and shades : who touch his ear With finer founds who ...
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... truth and virtue , up the steep ascent Of nature , calls him to his high reward , 150 155 169 165 The applauding smile of heaven ? Elfe wherefore burns In mortal bofoms this unquenched hope ,. That breathes from day to day fublimer ...
... truth and virtue , up the steep ascent Of nature , calls him to his high reward , 150 155 169 165 The applauding smile of heaven ? Elfe wherefore burns In mortal bofoms this unquenched hope ,. That breathes from day to day fublimer ...
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... Truth's exhaustless bofom . What need words To paint its power ? For this the daring youth Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms , In foreign climes to rove : the penfive fage , Heedlefs of fleep , or midnight's harmful damp ...
... Truth's exhaustless bofom . What need words To paint its power ? For this the daring youth Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms , In foreign climes to rove : the penfive fage , Heedlefs of fleep , or midnight's harmful damp ...
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