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according action ADDISON affections applied authority bear become BLAIR body bring called cause character circumstances comes common compounded concerns conduct consequence continued course denotes desire direct distinction DRYDEN duty employed evil existence expresses feeling figuratively force former French frequently German give given Greek hand happy heart hence hold human idea implies individual JOHNSON keep kind Latin latter less live look manner marks means mind mode moral nature never object offender one's opinion opposed pain particular pass passions perform person pleasure POPE positive present principles probably produce proper reason receive regard requires respects rest rule sense sentiment serve signifies society sometimes SOUTH speak species spirit stand superior supposed taken temper thing thought tion whole wish
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Страница 320 - But happy they, the happiest of their kind, Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend. 'Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace ; but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love . Where friendship...
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Страница 75 - Labour, and penury, the racks of pain, Disease, and sorrow's weeping train, And death, sad refuge from the storms of fate!
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Страница 348 - Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates! (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates!) The day when thou, imperial Troy! must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end.