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In the after editions , I pruned the double epithets with no sparing hand , and used my best efforts to tame the swell and glitter both of thought and diction ; though in truth , these parasite plants of youthful poetry had insinuated ...
In the after editions , I pruned the double epithets with no sparing hand , and used my best efforts to tame the swell and glitter both of thought and diction ; though in truth , these parasite plants of youthful poetry had insinuated ...
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I was wont boldly to affirm , that it would be scarcely more difficult to push a stone out from the pyramids with the bare hand , than to alter a word , or the position of a word , in Milton or Shakspeare , in their most important works ...
I was wont boldly to affirm , that it would be scarcely more difficult to push a stone out from the pyramids with the bare hand , than to alter a word , or the position of a word , in Milton or Shakspeare , in their most important works ...
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... when by means of meditation they have passed into thoughts . The ' sanity of the mind is between superstition with fanaticism on the ona That rage 1 ܪ 3 1 hand ; and enthusiasm with indifference and a diseased 30.
... when by means of meditation they have passed into thoughts . The ' sanity of the mind is between superstition with fanaticism on the ona That rage 1 ܪ 3 1 hand ; and enthusiasm with indifference and a diseased 30.
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1 hand ; and enthusiasm with indifference and a diseased slowness to action on the other . For the conceptions of the mind may be so vivid and adequate , as to preclude that impulse to the realizing of them , which is strongest and most ...
1 hand ; and enthusiasm with indifference and a diseased slowness to action on the other . For the conceptions of the mind may be so vivid and adequate , as to preclude that impulse to the realizing of them , which is strongest and most ...
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... he did nevertheless “ Argue not Against Heaven's hand or will , nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bore up and steer'd Right onward . ” From others only do we derive our knowledge that Milton D 2 35 The same calmness, ...
... he did nevertheless “ Argue not Against Heaven's hand or will , nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bore up and steer'd Right onward . ” From others only do we derive our knowledge that Milton D 2 35 The same calmness, ...
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