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Page 92
... imagination , and permits us not to con- ceive any happiness but its attainment , or any misery but its loss ; every other satisfaction which the bounty of Providence has scattered over life is neglected as incon- siderable , in ...
... imagination , and permits us not to con- ceive any happiness but its attainment , or any misery but its loss ; every other satisfaction which the bounty of Providence has scattered over life is neglected as incon- siderable , in ...
Page 109
... Imagination Dulce est desipere in loco . Wisdom at proper times is well forgot . HOR . Locke , whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favourer of idleness or libertinism , has advanced , that whoever hopes to employ any part of ...
... Imagination Dulce est desipere in loco . Wisdom at proper times is well forgot . HOR . Locke , whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favourer of idleness or libertinism , has advanced , that whoever hopes to employ any part of ...
Page 420
... imagination would have been com- pressed and restrained by confinement to rhyme . The excellence of this work is not exactness , but copiousness ; particular lines are not to be regarded : the power is in the whole , and in the whole ...
... imagination would have been com- pressed and restrained by confinement to rhyme . The excellence of this work is not exactness , but copiousness ; particular lines are not to be regarded : the power is in the whole , and in the whole ...
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Religious Progress | 3 |
Harry Hervey | 9 |
The Use of Catalogues 16 66 | 16 |
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