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" But the knowledge of nature is only half the task of a poet; he must be acquainted likewise with all the modes of life. His character requires that he estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all... "
Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ... - Page 886
by Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 1120 pages
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The novels of Sterne, Goldsmith, dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, and ...

Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all y night of putting my breeches under my head. In saying this, I was making not so much La Flc institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the...
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The Novels of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, and ...

Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...estimate the happiness and miscry of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations ; and trace the changes of the human mind, as they arc modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness...
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale

Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations ; and trace the changes of the human mind, as they arc modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind, as they are modified by various institutions, and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to...
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The Literary magnet of the belles lettres, science, and the fine ..., Volume 3

Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1825 - 380 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition — observe the power of all the passions, in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind, as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy, to...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 6

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions, and accidental influences, of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to...
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Prose

Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...or decoration of moral or religious truth I and he, who knowi mofl, will have of climate or cuflom, from the fprightlinefs of infancy to the defpondence of decrepitude. He muft divcft himfclf of the prejudices of his age or country ; he muft conlider right and wrong in their...
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom

Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1882 - 856 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition, observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions, and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliuess of infancy to...
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Miscellanies, in Prose and Verse: Consisting of the Inspector, a Periodical ...

Isaac Wilson - 1829 - 392 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate orcustom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the...
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