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Page 27
... Having narrowly escaped death by the fall of a tree , this poet takes occafion to obferve just- ly , that while we guard against some dangers , 3 Lib . 2. ode 13 . we are expofed to others we cannot forefee : he Ch . I. 27 IN A TRAIN .
... Having narrowly escaped death by the fall of a tree , this poet takes occafion to obferve just- ly , that while we guard against some dangers , 3 Lib . 2. ode 13 . we are expofed to others we cannot forefee : he Ch . I. 27 IN A TRAIN .
Page 28
... against avarice , which he pursues till the line 108 : there he makes an apology for wandering , and promises to return to his fubject ; but avarice having got poffeffion of his mind , he follows out that theme to the end , and never re ...
... against avarice , which he pursues till the line 108 : there he makes an apology for wandering , and promises to return to his fubject ; but avarice having got poffeffion of his mind , he follows out that theme to the end , and never re ...
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... against that elaborate defcription of Fame in the Æneid : any other book of that he roic poem , or of or of any heroic poem , has as good a title to that defcription as the book where it is placed . In a natural landscape we every day ...
... against that elaborate defcription of Fame in the Æneid : any other book of that he roic poem , or of or of any heroic poem , has as good a title to that defcription as the book where it is placed . In a natural landscape we every day ...
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... against a man , it must be for fome injury he has done me : and I cannot pity any one who is under no distress of body nor of mind . The circumftances now mentioned , if they raise an emotion or paffion , cannot be entirely indiffer ...
... against a man , it must be for fome injury he has done me : and I cannot pity any one who is under no distress of body nor of mind . The circumftances now mentioned , if they raise an emotion or paffion , cannot be entirely indiffer ...
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... against the author : nor would the paffion of pity be raised by an object in diftrefs , if that object did not give pain . What is now faid about the production of emo- tion or paffion , refolves into a very fimple propo- fition , That ...
... against the author : nor would the paffion of pity be raised by an object in diftrefs , if that object did not give pain . What is now faid about the production of emo- tion or paffion , refolves into a very fimple propo- fition , That ...
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