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... virtue oppressed and vice punished : where they do not both , or either , they are not to be defended . ' And if we should grant that the Greeks performed this better , perhaps it may admit of dispute , whether pity and terror are ...
... virtue oppressed and vice punished : where they do not both , or either , they are not to be defended . ' And if we should grant that the Greeks performed this better , perhaps it may admit of dispute , whether pity and terror are ...
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... virtue in his companion has no virtue in himself , those whom Otway frequented had no purpose of doing more for him than to pay his reckoning . They desired only to drink and laugh ; their fondness was without benevolence , and their ...
... virtue in his companion has no virtue in himself , those whom Otway frequented had no purpose of doing more for him than to pay his reckoning . They desired only to drink and laugh ; their fondness was without benevolence , and their ...
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... Virtue only is our own . So unaffected , so compos'd a mind , So firm , yet soft , so strong , yet so refin'd , Heaven , as its purest gold , by tortures try'd , The saint sustained it , but the woman dy'd . I have always considered ...
... Virtue only is our own . So unaffected , so compos'd a mind , So firm , yet soft , so strong , yet so refin'd , Heaven , as its purest gold , by tortures try'd , The saint sustained it , but the woman dy'd . I have always considered ...
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Milton | 15 |
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