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... reader may sometimes complain , with Boswell , that the unalleviated picture of human helplessness and misery leaves sadness upon the mind after perusal . But the moral is to be found . in the conclusion of the " Vanity of Human Wishes ...
... reader may sometimes complain , with Boswell , that the unalleviated picture of human helplessness and misery leaves sadness upon the mind after perusal . But the moral is to be found . in the conclusion of the " Vanity of Human Wishes ...
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... reader's esteem for the works and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate display of his own qualifications . The desire of pleasing has in different ...
... reader's esteem for the works and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate display of his own qualifications . The desire of pleasing has in different ...
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... reader , far from wondering that he missed them , wonders more frequently by what perverse- ness of industry they were ever found . " But wit , abstracted from its effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophically ...
... reader , far from wondering that he missed them , wonders more frequently by what perverse- ness of industry they were ever found . " But wit , abstracted from its effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophically ...
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... reader may perhaps cry out " Confu- sion worse confounded . " Here lies a she sun , and a he moon here , She gives the best light to his sphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another nothing owe . - DONNE , 1 Who but ...
... reader may perhaps cry out " Confu- sion worse confounded . " Here lies a she sun , and a he moon here , She gives the best light to his sphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another nothing owe . - DONNE , 1 Who but ...
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... reader is commonly surprised into some im- provement . But , considered as the verses of a lover , no man that has ever loved will much commend them . They are neither courtly nor pathetic , have neither gallantry nor fondness . His ...
... reader is commonly surprised into some im- provement . But , considered as the verses of a lover , no man that has ever loved will much commend them . They are neither courtly nor pathetic , have neither gallantry nor fondness . His ...
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