A Collection of One Hundred Pieces of English Literature: Fifty in Prose and Fifty in Verse : Accompanied with a Variety of Notes for the Use of the Inhabitants of the Netherlands, Volume 1Nayler en Company, 1830 |
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... spirit of the ancient Romans , of the French in their wars with the English , of the English themselves during a ... Spirits ; calls up the midnight ghost ; exhibits before us witches , amidst their unhallowed mysteries ; peoples ...
... spirit of the ancient Romans , of the French in their wars with the English , of the English themselves during a ... Spirits ; calls up the midnight ghost ; exhibits before us witches , amidst their unhallowed mysteries ; peoples ...
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... Spirits and Nature have laid all their treasures at his feet . In strength a demi - god , in profundity of view a prophet , in all - seeing wisdom a protecting spirit of a higher order , he lowers himself to mortals , as if unconscious ...
... Spirits and Nature have laid all their treasures at his feet . In strength a demi - god , in profundity of view a prophet , in all - seeing wisdom a protecting spirit of a higher order , he lowers himself to mortals , as if unconscious ...
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... spirit of science , unmingled with its grosser parts . He had considered Creation in its whole extent , and his des criptions are therefore learned . He had accustomed his imagination to unre trained indulgence , and his conceptions ...
... spirit of science , unmingled with its grosser parts . He had considered Creation in its whole extent , and his des criptions are therefore learned . He had accustomed his imagination to unre trained indulgence , and his conceptions ...
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... spirits beneath , whom I seduced With other promises and other vaunts , Than to submit boasting I could subdue The Omnipotent . Ah me ! they little know How dearly I abide ( b ) that boast , so vain Under what torments inwardly I groan ...
... spirits beneath , whom I seduced With other promises and other vaunts , Than to submit boasting I could subdue The Omnipotent . Ah me ! they little know How dearly I abide ( b ) that boast , so vain Under what torments inwardly I groan ...
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... spirits , to which my reason had been a bubble , were so suddenly called home . Mechanical as the notes were , yet so true in tune to Nature were they chanted , that in one moment they overthrew all my systematic reason- ings upon the ...
... spirits , to which my reason had been a bubble , were so suddenly called home . Mechanical as the notes were , yet so true in tune to Nature were they chanted , that in one moment they overthrew all my systematic reason- ings upon the ...
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