Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 27
... 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 ...
Page 89
... hope of doing something . He wrote letters , which Toland has published , to such men as he thought friends to the new commonwealth ; and even in the year of the Restoration he bated no jot of heart or hope , but was fantas- tical ...
... hope of doing something . He wrote letters , which Toland has published , to such men as he thought friends to the new commonwealth ; and even in the year of the Restoration he bated no jot of heart or hope , but was fantas- tical ...
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... hope , your grace will . ' He died October 21 , 1687 , and was buried at Beacons- field , with a monument erected by his son's executors , for which Rymer wrote the inscription , and which I hope is now rescued from dilapidation . He ...
... hope , your grace will . ' He died October 21 , 1687 , and was buried at Beacons- field , with a monument erected by his son's executors , for which Rymer wrote the inscription , and which I hope is now rescued from dilapidation . He ...
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