The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 30Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... humanity , and ample retribution . His faults brought their excufe with them ; and his very failings had their beauties . So much fweetnefs accompanied what he faid , and fo great generofity what he did , that people were always ...
... humanity , and ample retribution . His faults brought their excufe with them ; and his very failings had their beauties . So much fweetnefs accompanied what he faid , and fo great generofity what he did , that people were always ...
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... human things may take what turn they can ; but poetry , which pretends to have fomething of divinity in it , is to be more permanent . Odes once printed cannot well be altered , when the author has already faid that he expects his works ...
... human things may take what turn they can ; but poetry , which pretends to have fomething of divinity in it , is to be more permanent . Odes once printed cannot well be altered , when the author has already faid that he expects his works ...
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... human things may take what turn they can ; but poetry , which pretends to have fomething of divinity in it , is to be more permanent . Odes once printed cannot well be altered , when the author has already faid that he expects his works ...
... human things may take what turn they can ; but poetry , which pretends to have fomething of divinity in it , is to be more permanent . Odes once printed cannot well be altered , when the author has already faid that he expects his works ...
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... human darkness clear'd ; And his enlarg'd ideas found the road , Which Faith had dictated , and Angels trod . Confiderations on Part of the 88th PSALM .. A COLLEGE EXERCISE . 1690 . I. H EAVY , O Lord , on me thy judgements lie ...
... human darkness clear'd ; And his enlarg'd ideas found the road , Which Faith had dictated , and Angels trod . Confiderations on Part of the 88th PSALM .. A COLLEGE EXERCISE . 1690 . I. H EAVY , O Lord , on me thy judgements lie ...
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... human pains can ne'er come by ' t ; The god , not we , the poem makes ; We only tell folks what he speaks . Hence , when anatomifts difcourfe , How like brutes ' organs are to ours ; They grant , if higher powers think fit , A 2 They ...
... human pains can ne'er come by ' t ; The god , not we , the poem makes ; We only tell folks what he speaks . Hence , when anatomifts difcourfe , How like brutes ' organs are to ours ; They grant , if higher powers think fit , A 2 They ...
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