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Pàgina xxiii
... happier seat , Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat : These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain ; These goods He grants , who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind , And makes the happiness ...
... happier seat , Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat : These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain ; These goods He grants , who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind , And makes the happiness ...
Pàgina 9
... happiness of language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception , that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production , acknowledged to be just ; if it be ...
... happiness of language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception , that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production , acknowledged to be just ; if it be ...
Pàgina 27
... happiness . Tasso affords images , and Cowley sentiments . It happens , however , that Tasso's description affords some reason for Rymer's censure . He says of the Supreme Being , Hà sotto i piedi e fato e la natura Ministri humili , e ...
... happiness . Tasso affords images , and Cowley sentiments . It happens , however , that Tasso's description affords some reason for Rymer's censure . He says of the Supreme Being , Hà sotto i piedi e fato e la natura Ministri humili , e ...
Pàgina 28
... happiness doth lie : I have loved , and got , and told ; But should I love , get , tell , till I were old , I should not find that hidden mystery ; Oh , ' tis imposture all ! And as no chymic yet th ' elixir got , But glorifies his ...
... happiness doth lie : I have loved , and got , and told ; But should I love , get , tell , till I were old , I should not find that hidden mystery ; Oh , ' tis imposture all ! And as no chymic yet th ' elixir got , But glorifies his ...
Pàgina 31
... happiness . After so much criticism on his Poems , the Essays which accompany them must not be forgotten . What is said by Sprat of his conversation , that no man could draw from it any suspicion of his excellence in poetry , may be ...
... happiness . After so much criticism on his Poems , the Essays which accompany them must not be forgotten . What is said by Sprat of his conversation , that no man could draw from it any suspicion of his excellence in poetry , may be ...
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