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Pagina 136
... reader , when he first opens his book , finds himself surprised by a new language . This novelty has been , by those who can find nothing wrong in Milton , imputed to his laborious endeavours after words suitable to the grandeur of his ...
... reader , when he first opens his book , finds himself surprised by a new language . This novelty has been , by those who can find nothing wrong in Milton , imputed to his laborious endeavours after words suitable to the grandeur of his ...
Pagina 211
... reader shall lay aside . The subject of the disputation is not piety , but the motives to piety ; that of the description is not God , but the works of God . Contemplative piety , or the intercourse between God and the human soul ...
... reader shall lay aside . The subject of the disputation is not piety , but the motives to piety ; that of the description is not God , but the works of God . Contemplative piety , or the intercourse between God and the human soul ...
Pagina 334
... reader may be weary , though the critick may commend . Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention . That book is good in vain , which the reader throws away . He ...
... reader may be weary , though the critick may commend . Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention . That book is good in vain , which the reader throws away . He ...
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