The Works of the English Poets, Том 24J. Nichols, 1779 - 228 страници |
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... demand . I may fafely conclude , that no man will expect that in this poem I should borrow any embellishments from the exploded and obfolete theology of the ancient ido- laters of Greece or Rome : that I should addrefs any " rapturous ...
... demand . I may fafely conclude , that no man will expect that in this poem I should borrow any embellishments from the exploded and obfolete theology of the ancient ido- laters of Greece or Rome : that I should addrefs any " rapturous ...
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... demands further light and confirmation ? But further : fince thefe gentlemen fhew fo much in- duftry in propagating their opinions , and are fo fond of making profelytes to Atheism ; fince they affect a zeal in countenancing ...
... demands further light and confirmation ? But further : fince thefe gentlemen fhew fo much in- duftry in propagating their opinions , and are fo fond of making profelytes to Atheism ; fince they affect a zeal in countenancing ...
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... princi- ples . I demand only a candid temper in the reader , and a mind pleased with truth , and delivered from the prejudices of atheistical converfation . SUMMARY ACCOUNT of the following POEM , and of what 36 PREFACE .
... princi- ples . I demand only a candid temper in the reader , and a mind pleased with truth , and delivered from the prejudices of atheistical converfation . SUMMARY ACCOUNT of the following POEM , and of what 36 PREFACE .
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... Demands a conscious , wife , reflecting caufe , 55 . Which freely moves , and acts by reafon's laws , That can deliberate , means elect , and find Their due connexion with the end defign'd . And fince the world's wide frame does not ...
... Demands a conscious , wife , reflecting caufe , 55 . Which freely moves , and acts by reafon's laws , That can deliberate , means elect , and find Their due connexion with the end defign'd . And fince the world's wide frame does not ...
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... demand , What moves them first , and puts them off at hand ? What makes them this one way their race direct , While they a thousand other ways reje & ? Why do they never once their courfe inflect ? Why do they roll with fuch an equal ...
... demand , What moves them first , and puts them off at hand ? What makes them this one way their race direct , While they a thousand other ways reje & ? Why do they never once their courfe inflect ? Why do they roll with fuch an equal ...
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