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... natural course of life . The machinery of the Pagans is uninterest- ing to us : when a Goddess appears in Homer or Virgil , we grow weary ; still more so in the Grecian tragedies , as in that kind of composition a nearer approach to ...
... natural course of life . The machinery of the Pagans is uninterest- ing to us : when a Goddess appears in Homer or Virgil , we grow weary ; still more so in the Grecian tragedies , as in that kind of composition a nearer approach to ...
Pàgina 31
... natural fitness , but because God wills it to be right ; " and it is certainly so , because he has predisposed the relations of things so , as that which he wills must be right . BOSWELL . Etat . 71 . 1780. because it is less like ...
... natural fitness , but because God wills it to be right ; " and it is certainly so , because he has predisposed the relations of things so , as that which he wills must be right . BOSWELL . Etat . 71 . 1780. because it is less like ...
Pàgina 43
... natural instances of the effect of blank verse occurred to the late Earl of Hopeton . His Lordship observed one of his shepherds poring in the fields upon Milton's " Para- dise Lost ; " and having asked him what book it was , the man ...
... natural instances of the effect of blank verse occurred to the late Earl of Hopeton . His Lordship observed one of his shepherds poring in the fields upon Milton's " Para- dise Lost ; " and having asked him what book it was , the man ...
Pàgina 46
... natural , that he did not esteem them in others . " It may indeed be observed , that in all the numerous writings of Johnson , whether in prose or verse , and even in his Tragedy , of which the subject is the dis- tress of an ...
... natural , that he did not esteem them in others . " It may indeed be observed , that in all the numerous writings of Johnson , whether in prose or verse , and even in his Tragedy , of which the subject is the dis- tress of an ...
Pàgina 73
... natural superiority , sup- ply the rest of the world with almost all that pride de- sires , and luxury enjoys . But ... natural his- tory . There are arts of manufacture practised in the countries in which you preside , which are yet ...
... natural superiority , sup- ply the rest of the world with almost all that pride de- sires , and luxury enjoys . But ... natural his- tory . There are arts of manufacture practised in the countries in which you preside , which are yet ...
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