The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 8H.D. Symonds, 1799 |
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... delights in the more fubftantial acts of leffening the fphere of human mifery , and of augment- ing the stock of private and public felicity . At the commencement of the prefent war his Royal Highness was appointed a general in the army ...
... delights in the more fubftantial acts of leffening the fphere of human mifery , and of augment- ing the stock of private and public felicity . At the commencement of the prefent war his Royal Highness was appointed a general in the army ...
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... delight and defpair . " From this teftimony we may judge , that a fimple flyle appears , to the best judges , to be the more difficult to obtain , and more defirable than that highly ornamented diction to which writers of inferior tafte ...
... delight and defpair . " From this teftimony we may judge , that a fimple flyle appears , to the best judges , to be the more difficult to obtain , and more defirable than that highly ornamented diction to which writers of inferior tafte ...
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... delightful fon of the mufes no further account can be drawn from his works , or indeed from any other records with which later ages have been furnished ! Too often are we left to gather , very imperfectly , the particulars of an eminent ...
... delightful fon of the mufes no further account can be drawn from his works , or indeed from any other records with which later ages have been furnished ! Too often are we left to gather , very imperfectly , the particulars of an eminent ...
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... delightful waters , whofe tranf- parency and rapidity pleafe the eye even of the paffing traveller , I longed to throw my angle- " I in these flowery meads would be , These chrystal streams should folace me , To whose harmonious ...
... delightful waters , whofe tranf- parency and rapidity pleafe the eye even of the paffing traveller , I longed to throw my angle- " I in these flowery meads would be , These chrystal streams should folace me , To whose harmonious ...
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... delight the philofopher and excite the admiration of the learned ; but they are by no means calculated to influence the bulk of mankind . Thefe require fomething more fubftantial as a founda- tion for action , and are actuated rather by ...
... delight the philofopher and excite the admiration of the learned ; but they are by no means calculated to influence the bulk of mankind . Thefe require fomething more fubftantial as a founda- tion for action , and are actuated rather by ...
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