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" The invention all admired, and each, how he To be the inventor missed ; so easy it seemed Once found, which yet unfound most would have thought Impossible... "
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 122, No. 4, 1978) - Page 253
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Memoirs of the Life and Character of the Late Rev. Cornelius Winter

1808 - 512 pages
...•.."'• . .!*•• • " The invention all admii-'d, and each how he To be the inventor, miss'd ; so easy it seemed Once found, which yet unfound, most would have thought Impossible." If this statement be just, there is much that would pass for the effect of genius that abides not the...
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Memoirs of the Life and Character of the Late Rev. Cornelius Winter

1811 - 394 pages
...Satan's advice in the council: " The invention all admir'd, and each how he To be the inventor, miss'd ; so easy it seemed Once found, which yet unfound, most would have thought Impossible." If this statement be just, there is much that would pass for the effect of genius that abides not the...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, Volume 1

John Milton - 1821 - 226 pages
...despair'd. He ended, and his words their drooping cheer Enlighten'd, and their languished hope revived. The invention all admired, and each, how he To be the inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd Once found, which yet unfound most would have Impossible: Yet, haply, of...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books

John Milton - 1826 - 318 pages
...despair'd. 495 He ended, and his words their drooping cheer Enlighten'd, and their languish'd hope revived. The invention all admired, and each, how he To be the inventor miss'd ; so easy it seern'd [thought Once found, which yet unfound most would have Impossible : Yet...
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The Paradise Lost of Milton, Volume 1

1827 - 294 pages
...Enlightened, and their languished hope revived. The invention all admired, and each, how he To be the inventer missed ; so easy it seemed Once found, which yet unfound most would have thought Impossible : Yet, haply, of thy race In future days, if malice should abound, 502 Some one intent on mischief,...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...despair'd. 495 He ended, and his words their drooping cheer Enlighten'd, and their languished hope revived. The invention all admired, and each, how he To be the inventor miss'd ; so easy it seem'd [thought Once found, which yet unfound most would have Impossible : Yet...
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The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

1836 - 558 pages
..." He ended, and his words their drooping cheer Enlightened, and their languished hope revived. Th' invention all admired, and each, how he To be the...so easy it seemed Once found, which, yet unfound, moat would hav thought Impossible: yet, haply, of thy race In future days, if malice should abound,...
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The Phrenological Journal, and Magazine of Moral Science, Volumes 11-12

1838 - 908 pages
...newly-devised artillery, that " Th' invention all admired, and each, how he To be th' inventor miss'd ; so easy it seemed Once found, which yet unfound most would have thought Impossible." Paradise Lost, VI. 498. Nor is this feeling altogether unreasonable, for we find that almost all great...
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The Phrenological Journal, and Magazine of Moral Science, Volume 12

1839 - 444 pages
...newly-devised artillery, that " Th' invention all admired, and each, how he To be th' inventor miss'd ; so easy it seemed Once found, which yet unfound most would have thought Impossible." Paradise Lost, VI. 498. Nor is this feeling altogether unreasonable, for we find that almost all great...
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Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also, Lives of Distinguished ...

Henry Howe - 1840 - 492 pages
.... 326 218 John Whitehurst . . . 343 AMERICAN MECHANICS. JOHN FITCH, AN EARLY STEAMBOAT INVENTOR. " The invention all admired, and each how he To be the inventor missed ; BO easy it seemed, Once found, which yet uruound, most would have thought Impossible. MILTON. Who...
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