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As all is dulness , when the fancy's bad ; So , without judgment , fancy is but mad : And judgment has a boundless influence Not only in the choice of words , or sense , But on the world , on manners , and on men ; Fancy is but the ...
As all is dulness , when the fancy's bad ; So , without judgment , fancy is but mad : And judgment has a boundless influence Not only in the choice of words , or sense , But on the world , on manners , and on men ; Fancy is but the ...
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Heroic poems have a just pretence To be the utmost stretch of human sense ; A work of such inestimable worth , There are but two the world has yet brought forth ! HOMER and VIRGIL ! with what sacred awe , Do those mere sounds the ...
Heroic poems have a just pretence To be the utmost stretch of human sense ; A work of such inestimable worth , There are but two the world has yet brought forth ! HOMER and VIRGIL ! with what sacred awe , Do those mere sounds the ...
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BUT it had been directly contrary to so good a design , if they had made this clause in the sense that most understand it , which is this ; That if a poor man ( just cautious enough to avoid all the Treasons in this Act , and yet ...
BUT it had been directly contrary to so good a design , if they had made this clause in the sense that most understand it , which is this ; That if a poor man ( just cautious enough to avoid all the Treasons in this Act , and yet ...
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A SHORT LIFE OF THE DUKE | 11 |
Loves SLAVERY AND OTHER POEMS page | 27 |
ON FRIENDSHIP page | 65 |
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