The idler. PoemsPafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Page 4
... less difficult to write a volume of lines swelled with epithets , brightened by figures , and stiffened by transpositions , than to produce a few couplets graced only by naked elegance and simple purity , which require so much care and ...
... less difficult to write a volume of lines swelled with epithets , brightened by figures , and stiffened by transpositions , than to produce a few couplets graced only by naked elegance and simple purity , which require so much care and ...
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... but a succession of pleasures , will find herself engaged without design in numberless competitions , and mortified , without provocation , with number- less afflictions . But I do not mean to extinguish that ardour which 15 THE IDLER.
... but a succession of pleasures , will find herself engaged without design in numberless competitions , and mortified , without provocation , with number- less afflictions . But I do not mean to extinguish that ardour which 15 THE IDLER.
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... less important in their own eyes , though less distinguished by the publick ; and many a time have we lamented the partiality of mankind , and agreed that men of the deepest inquiry sometimes let their discoveries die away in silence ...
... less important in their own eyes , though less distinguished by the publick ; and many a time have we lamented the partiality of mankind , and agreed that men of the deepest inquiry sometimes let their discoveries die away in silence ...
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... less a hero to himself . He that is most elevated above the crowd by the importance of his employments , or the reputation of his genius , feels himself affected by fame or business but as they influence his domes- tick life . The high ...
... less a hero to himself . He that is most elevated above the crowd by the importance of his employments , or the reputation of his genius , feels himself affected by fame or business but as they influence his domes- tick life . The high ...
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... less certain that of what virtue there is , misery produces far the greater part . Physical evil may be , therefore , en- dured with patience , since it is the cause of moral good ; and patience itself is one virtue by which we are ...
... less certain that of what virtue there is , misery produces far the greater part . Physical evil may be , therefore , en- dured with patience , since it is the cause of moral good ; and patience itself is one virtue by which we are ...
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