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... elevation than can be infpired by human actions the most heroic and magnanimous ; witness what we feel from Milton's description of fuperior beings . Yet every man must be sensible of a more conftant and pleasant elevation , when the ...
... elevation than can be infpired by human actions the most heroic and magnanimous ; witness what we feel from Milton's description of fuperior beings . Yet every man must be sensible of a more conftant and pleasant elevation , when the ...
Page 283
... elevation , falls as from a height ; and the fall is immoderate like the elevation . Where this effect is not felt , it must be prevented by fome obfcurity in the conception , which frequently attends the defcription of un- known ...
... elevation , falls as from a height ; and the fall is immoderate like the elevation . Where this effect is not felt , it must be prevented by fome obfcurity in the conception , which frequently attends the defcription of un- known ...
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... elevation . Of this doctrine Shakespear affords us a beautiful illustration , in a paffage part of which is cited above for another purpose : The cloud - capt tow'rs , the gorgeous palaces , The folemn temples , the great globe itself ...
... elevation . Of this doctrine Shakespear affords us a beautiful illustration , in a paffage part of which is cited above for another purpose : The cloud - capt tow'rs , the gorgeous palaces , The folemn temples , the great globe itself ...
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