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Page 149
... hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox ; or those , who , being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients , are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses , and flatter themselves that the regard ...
... hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox ; or those , who , being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients , are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses , and flatter themselves that the regard ...
Page 267
... Hope shews an unequalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed , and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of Fate's dilemma wound . Vain shadow , which dost ...
... Hope shews an unequalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed , and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of Fate's dilemma wound . Vain shadow , which dost ...
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... hope , is not true ; and there is this ground of better hope , that Pope , who lived near enough to be well informed , relates in Spence's memorials , that he died of a fever caught by violent pursuit OTWAY 313.
... hope , is not true ; and there is this ground of better hope , that Pope , who lived near enough to be well informed , relates in Spence's memorials , that he died of a fever caught by violent pursuit OTWAY 313.
Contents
JOHNSON ON SHAKESPEARE | 43 |
Note on the Text and Acknowledgment | 58 |
EARLY PERIODICAL CRITICISM | 59 |
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