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I. Ep . I. It was a double pleasure to me , and still remains a tender recollection , that I should have received from a friend so revered the first knowledge of a poet , by whose works , year after year , I was so enthusiastically ...
I. Ep . I. It was a double pleasure to me , and still remains a tender recollection , that I should have received from a friend so revered the first knowledge of a poet , by whose works , year after year , I was so enthusiastically ...
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For I soon found the means of directing it to my favorite subjects Of providence , fore - knowledge , will , and fate , Fix'd fate , free will , fore - knowledge absolute , And found no end in wandering mazes lost .
For I soon found the means of directing it to my favorite subjects Of providence , fore - knowledge , will , and fate , Fix'd fate , free will , fore - knowledge absolute , And found no end in wandering mazes lost .
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a then living poets Bowles and Cowper * were , to the best of my knowledge , the first who combined natural thoughts with natural diction ; the first who reconciled the heart with the head . It is true , as I have before mentioned ...
a then living poets Bowles and Cowper * were , to the best of my knowledge , the first who combined natural thoughts with natural diction ; the first who reconciled the heart with the head . It is true , as I have before mentioned ...
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... talent ( or the faculty of appropriating and applying the knowledge of others ) yet still want something of the creative , and selfsufficing power of absolute Genius . For this reason therefore , they are men of commanding genius .
... talent ( or the faculty of appropriating and applying the knowledge of others ) yet still want something of the creative , and selfsufficing power of absolute Genius . For this reason therefore , they are men of commanding genius .
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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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