The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 25 |
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... able to reconcile myself to the disproportion , be- tween the performance and the occasion that pro- duced it : that the golden age should return be- cause Pollio had a son , appears so wild a fiction , that I am ready to suspect the ...
... able to reconcile myself to the disproportion , be- tween the performance and the occasion that pro- duced it : that the golden age should return be- cause Pollio had a son , appears so wild a fiction , that I am ready to suspect the ...
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... able to discover how it was deserved . Of the eighth pastoral , so little is properly the work of Virgil , that he has no claim to other praise or blame than that of a translator . Of the ninth it is scarce possible to discover the ...
... able to discover how it was deserved . Of the eighth pastoral , so little is properly the work of Virgil , that he has no claim to other praise or blame than that of a translator . Of the ninth it is scarce possible to discover the ...
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... able to relate how the passions are kept in perpetual agitation , by the recollection of injury and meditations of revenge ; how the blood boils at the name of the enemy , and life is worn away in contrivances of mischief . Every other ...
... able to relate how the passions are kept in perpetual agitation , by the recollection of injury and meditations of revenge ; how the blood boils at the name of the enemy , and life is worn away in contrivances of mischief . Every other ...
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... able to diminish the evil of life , and to increase the good ; he will learn to resign with complacency , to receive with grati- tude , and possess with chearfulness : and as in this conduct there is not only wisdom but virtue , he 30 x ...
... able to diminish the evil of life , and to increase the good ; he will learn to resign with complacency , to receive with grati- tude , and possess with chearfulness : and as in this conduct there is not only wisdom but virtue , he 30 x ...
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... able to rejoice in hope , and to anticipate the felicity of that state , in which the Spirits of the Just shall be made perfect . ' N ° 97. TUESDAY , OCTOBER 9 , 1753 . Χρη δε και εν τοις ήθεσιν ωσπερ και εν τη των πραγμάτων ουστασεις ...
... able to rejoice in hope , and to anticipate the felicity of that state , in which the Spirits of the Just shall be made perfect . ' N ° 97. TUESDAY , OCTOBER 9 , 1753 . Χρη δε και εν τοις ήθεσιν ωσπερ και εν τη των πραγμάτων ουστασεις ...
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