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... effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors ; a ... effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and ...
... effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors ; a ... effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and ...
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... effect of a lover's name upon glass : My name engraved herein Doth contribute my firmness to this glass : Which , ever since that charm , hath been As hard as that which graved it was . - DONNE . Their conceits were sometimes slight and ...
... effect of a lover's name upon glass : My name engraved herein Doth contribute my firmness to this glass : Which , ever since that charm , hath been As hard as that which graved it was . - DONNE . Their conceits were sometimes slight and ...
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... effect : the whole system of life , while the theocracy was yet visible , has an appearance so different from all other scenes of human action , that the reader of the sacred volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of ...
... effect : the whole system of life , while the theocracy was yet visible , has an appearance so different from all other scenes of human action , that the reader of the sacred volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of ...
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... effects of idleness . D As the Davideis affords only four books , though intended to consist of twelve , there is no opportunity for such criticism as Epic poems commonly supply . The plan of the whole work is very imperfectly shown by ...
... effects of idleness . D As the Davideis affords only four books , though intended to consist of twelve , there is no opportunity for such criticism as Epic poems commonly supply . The plan of the whole work is very imperfectly shown by ...
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... effect , at least to our ears , will appear by a passage , in which every reader will lament to see just and noble thoughts defrauded of their praise by inelegance of language : — Where honour or where conscience does not bind No other ...
... effect , at least to our ears , will appear by a passage , in which every reader will lament to see just and noble thoughts defrauded of their praise by inelegance of language : — Where honour or where conscience does not bind No other ...
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