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Page ix
... less motion of the earth , and thinking otherwise in as - remarkable for his sobriety and other virtues than tronomy than the Dominicans and Franciscans for his great learning and ingenuity . One or two thought . And though the Marquis ...
... less motion of the earth , and thinking otherwise in as - remarkable for his sobriety and other virtues than tronomy than the Dominicans and Franciscans for his great learning and ingenuity . One or two thought . And though the Marquis ...
Page xxii
... less figurative and metaphorical , they have few or no good poetical versions of the and better suited to the nature of history , has greatest poets ; they are forced to translate Homer , enough of the Latin turn and idiom to give it an ...
... less figurative and metaphorical , they have few or no good poetical versions of the and better suited to the nature of history , has greatest poets ; they are forced to translate Homer , enough of the Latin turn and idiom to give it an ...
Page xxv
... less visited almost all authors , and improved by all , even by to the last both by his own countrymen and fo- romances , of which he had been fond in his young- reigners , than he had been in his flourishing con - er years ; and as the ...
... less visited almost all authors , and improved by all , even by to the last both by his own countrymen and fo- romances , of which he had been fond in his young- reigners , than he had been in his flourishing con - er years ; and as the ...
Page xxx
... less severe , I liked his project , the success did fear ; Through that wide field how he his way should find , Sulphureumque Erebi , flammivomúmque spe - O'er which lame Faith leads Understanding blind , Lest he'd perplex the things he ...
... less severe , I liked his project , the success did fear ; Through that wide field how he his way should find , Sulphureumque Erebi , flammivomúmque spe - O'er which lame Faith leads Understanding blind , Lest he'd perplex the things he ...
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... Less than archangel ruined , and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun , new risen , Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon , In dim eclipse , disastrous twilight sheds On half the ...
... Less than archangel ruined , and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun , new risen , Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon , In dim eclipse , disastrous twilight sheds On half the ...
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Page 10 - Who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottomed, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings Over the vast abrupt ! — So both ascend In the visions of God — B.