The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney D. C. Heath, 1980 - 765 Seiten |
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... mankind ; Some place the bliss in action , some in ease , Those call it pleasure , and contentment these ; Some , sunk to beasts , find pleasure end in pain ; Some , swell'd to gods , confess even virtue vain ; Or , indolent , to each ...
... mankind ; Some place the bliss in action , some in ease , Those call it pleasure , and contentment these ; Some , sunk to beasts , find pleasure end in pain ; Some , swell'd to gods , confess even virtue vain ; Or , indolent , to each ...
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... mankind , those individuals upon which the attention ought most to be employ'd ; as a diamond , though it cannot be made , may be polished by art , and placed in such a situation , as to display that lustre which before was buried among ...
... mankind , those individuals upon which the attention ought most to be employ'd ; as a diamond , though it cannot be made , may be polished by art , and placed in such a situation , as to display that lustre which before was buried among ...
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... mankind are neither so obstinately wicked as to deserve ever- lasting punishment , nor so good as to merit being admitted into the society of blessed spirits ; and therefore that God is graciously pleased to allow of a middle state ...
... mankind are neither so obstinately wicked as to deserve ever- lasting punishment , nor so good as to merit being admitted into the society of blessed spirits ; and therefore that God is graciously pleased to allow of a middle state ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
Urheberrecht | |
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