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... all who are placed in this condition ; a condition to which , by the vicissitudes of life , every person is exposed , and in whose dark and inauspicious night more than five hundred thousand of our race are at present enshrouded .
... all who are placed in this condition ; a condition to which , by the vicissitudes of life , every person is exposed , and in whose dark and inauspicious night more than five hundred thousand of our race are at present enshrouded .
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Had not Homer , Ossian , Milton , Blacklock , and scores of others , composed and sung their immortal verses while their vision was muffled , deep and dark as the drapery of night , we might be constrained to use metaphysical arguments ...
Had not Homer , Ossian , Milton , Blacklock , and scores of others , composed and sung their immortal verses while their vision was muffled , deep and dark as the drapery of night , we might be constrained to use metaphysical arguments ...
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As the meteor shoots through blackest night , and pours its glaring light over torrents wild , rocky cliff , and ocean surge , sc do the works of this , and the Grecian poet , shine forth with transcendent luster through all succeeding ...
As the meteor shoots through blackest night , and pours its glaring light over torrents wild , rocky cliff , and ocean surge , sc do the works of this , and the Grecian poet , shine forth with transcendent luster through all succeeding ...
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His ancestors , Trathal and Trenmor , are also portrayed in song , possessing such manly virtues as make us forget that they lived in a period when humanity was disgraced at Rome , and heathen darkness , like the dusky curtains of night ...
His ancestors , Trathal and Trenmor , are also portrayed in song , possessing such manly virtues as make us forget that they lived in a period when humanity was disgraced at Rome , and heathen darkness , like the dusky curtains of night ...
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... speculation on this subject , as flee the shadows of night before the morning sun . This argument is predicated upon the perfect delineations of feeling in which these poems abound , intuitive in the bosom of every blind person .
... speculation on this subject , as flee the shadows of night before the morning sun . This argument is predicated upon the perfect delineations of feeling in which these poems abound , intuitive in the bosom of every blind person .
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