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Page xi
... of a tender , benevolent heart , charmed the reader no lefs ; leaving him in doubt , whether he should more admire the Poet , or love the Man . From that time , Mr. Thomfon's acquaintance was courted by MR . JAMES THOMSON . xi.
... of a tender , benevolent heart , charmed the reader no lefs ; leaving him in doubt , whether he should more admire the Poet , or love the Man . From that time , Mr. Thomfon's acquaintance was courted by MR . JAMES THOMSON . xi.
Page xvi
... heart like his could feel , for the person whom , of all mankind , he most revered and loved . At the fame time , he found himself , from an eafy competency , reduced to a itate of precarious dependence , in which he paffed the ...
... heart like his could feel , for the person whom , of all mankind , he most revered and loved . At the fame time , he found himself , from an eafy competency , reduced to a itate of precarious dependence , in which he paffed the ...
Page xvii
... hearts , he knew , were not contracted by the ample fortunes they had acquired ; who would , of them- felves , interpofe , if they faw any occafion for it . But his chief dependence , during this long interval , was on the protection ...
... hearts , he knew , were not contracted by the ample fortunes they had acquired ; who would , of them- felves , interpofe , if they faw any occafion for it . But his chief dependence , during this long interval , was on the protection ...
Page xxiv
... heart : fo that he is not in the leaft concerned in that quef- tion about the merit or demerit of imitators . What he borrows from the ancients , he gives us in an avowed faithful paraphrafe or tranflation ; as we fee in a few paffages ...
... heart : fo that he is not in the leaft concerned in that quef- tion about the merit or demerit of imitators . What he borrows from the ancients , he gives us in an avowed faithful paraphrafe or tranflation ; as we fee in a few paffages ...
Page xxvi
... heart , they are better reprefented in his writings than they can be by the pen of any biographer . There , his love of mankind , of his country and friends , his devotion to the Supreme Being , founded on the most elevated and juft ...
... heart , they are better reprefented in his writings than they can be by the pen of any biographer . There , his love of mankind , of his country and friends , his devotion to the Supreme Being , founded on the most elevated and juft ...
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