The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...R. and J. Dodsley, 1764 |
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... afford but flender pleasure . I KNOW not , fays another , what may be the gentleman's motive to give this opinion : But I am perfuaded numbers pretend the fame through mere jealoufy or envy . A READER Confiders an author , as one who ...
... afford but flender pleasure . I KNOW not , fays another , what may be the gentleman's motive to give this opinion : But I am perfuaded numbers pretend the fame through mere jealoufy or envy . A READER Confiders an author , as one who ...
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... afford an excufe to their modefty , as well as add a weight to their inftructions . For , from the be- ginning of time , if we may believe the histories of the best repute , man has ever found a delight in giving credit to furprizing ...
... afford an excufe to their modefty , as well as add a weight to their inftructions . For , from the be- ginning of time , if we may believe the histories of the best repute , man has ever found a delight in giving credit to furprizing ...
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... afford a pleasure not reducible to either of the foregoing heads . A ruin , for inftance , may be neither new to us , nor majestick , nor beauti- ful , yet afford that pleafing melancholy which proceeds from a reflection on decayed ...
... afford a pleasure not reducible to either of the foregoing heads . A ruin , for inftance , may be neither new to us , nor majestick , nor beauti- ful , yet afford that pleafing melancholy which proceeds from a reflection on decayed ...
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... afford some slender fa- tisfaction , through the change derived from per- fpective but to move on continually and find no change of scene in the leaft attendant on our change of place , muft give actual pain to a per- fon of taste . For ...
... afford some slender fa- tisfaction , through the change derived from per- fpective but to move on continually and find no change of scene in the leaft attendant on our change of place , muft give actual pain to a per- fon of taste . For ...
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... afford a probability that they grew by nature . RUINATED ftructures appear to derive their power of pleafing , from the irregularity of fur- face , which is VARIETY ; and the latitude they afford the imagination , to conceive an enlarge ...
... afford a probability that they grew by nature . RUINATED ftructures appear to derive their power of pleafing , from the irregularity of fur- face , which is VARIETY ; and the latitude they afford the imagination , to conceive an enlarge ...
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