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" ... before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since. The mind in infancy is, methinks, like the body in embryo; and receives impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be... "
The Tatler - Page 352
by Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1804 - 400 pages
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English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: Sir Richard Steele, Joseph ...

1906 - 578 pages
...of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since. The mind...removed by reason, as any mark, with which a child is bom, is to be taken away by any future application. Hence it is, that good-nature in me is no merit;...
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The British classical authors: with biographical notices. On the basis of a ...

Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 pages
...seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since. The mind in inuo fancy is, methinks, like the body in embryo, and receives...born is to be taken away by any future application. 115 Hence it is that good-nature in me is no merit; but having been so frequently overwhelmed with...
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Essays

Sir Richard Steele - 1907 - 392 pages
...of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since. The mind...taken away by any future application. Hence it is that good -nature in me is no merit ; but having been so frequently overwhelmed with her tears before I...
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Composition and Style

Robert D. Blackman - 1908 - 328 pages
...of sorrow, which, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since. The mind...taken away by any future application. Hence it is that good nature in me is no merit; but having been as frequently overwhelmed with her tears before I knew...
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Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1910 - 776 pages
...of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made , Fore 6 endurance any future application. Hence it is, that goodnature in me is no merit; but having been...
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Tratado teorico-practico de ortologia inglesa, precedido de un bosquejo ...

Sebastian Bauza - 1912 - 284 pages
...sensible of \vhat it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart evcr since. The mind in infancy is, methinks, like the body in embryo ; and receives impressions so f orcible, that they are as hard to be removed by reason, as any mark with which a child is born is...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1660-1780)

Edmund Gosse - 1917 - 440 pages
...of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since. The mind...away by any future application. Hence it is, that good nature in me is no merit ; but having been so frequently overwhelmed with her tears before I knew...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1600-1780)

Edmund Gosse - 1924 - 440 pages
...of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since. The mind...away by any future application. Hence it is, that good nature in me is no merit ; but having been so frequently overwhelmed with her tears before I knew...
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Progressive Readings in Prose

Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 392 pages
...of sorrow, which, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since. The mind...hard to be removed by reason, as any mark with which H child is born, is to be taken away by any future application. Hence it is, that good-nature in me...
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Essayists Past and Present: A Selection of English Essays

John Boynton Priestley - 1925 - 328 pages
...of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since. The mind in infancy is, niethinks, like the body in embryo ; and receives impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to...
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