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Page iii
... , and to watch the calm nights through , Exploring by what words , what numbers even , I may dispread clear beams before thy mind , That inly thou mayst view all things withdrawn . PREFACE . OUR lot is not fallen upon a time.
... , and to watch the calm nights through , Exploring by what words , what numbers even , I may dispread clear beams before thy mind , That inly thou mayst view all things withdrawn . PREFACE . OUR lot is not fallen upon a time.
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... minds of the generality , by too high or too refined a standard , - but because there exists for them no standard posi- tive or satisfactory enough to control the passing humours of the ingenious reader , who is naturally , in such a ...
... minds of the generality , by too high or too refined a standard , - but because there exists for them no standard posi- tive or satisfactory enough to control the passing humours of the ingenious reader , who is naturally , in such a ...
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... mind as it were an element for that expression to work upon , by direct and indirect impulse , so that if he be not conformed and adapted thereto , we may liken it to a misplaced limb , which presents to us a material beauty only , and ...
... mind as it were an element for that expression to work upon , by direct and indirect impulse , so that if he be not conformed and adapted thereto , we may liken it to a misplaced limb , which presents to us a material beauty only , and ...
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... Mind that wrotest down what I descried , Herein thy nobleness shall be displayed . I thus began , " Poet , that art my guide , Weigh well my puissance , if it suffice , Ere that high quest unto me thou confide . Thou sayest that Silvius ...
... Mind that wrotest down what I descried , Herein thy nobleness shall be displayed . I thus began , " Poet , that art my guide , Weigh well my puissance , if it suffice , Ere that high quest unto me thou confide . Thou sayest that Silvius ...
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... mind by some new thought is crost , Till far astray from his first plan he goes ; Thus I became , upon this lightless coast , And , thinking , all that fire of enterprise , Which I had in me at the first , I lost . " If well the sense ...
... mind by some new thought is crost , Till far astray from his first plan he goes ; Thus I became , upon this lightless coast , And , thinking , all that fire of enterprise , Which I had in me at the first , I lost . " If well the sense ...
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