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What Cowley has written upon 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 ...
What Cowley has written upon 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 ...
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All this , I 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 of a thief that had ...
All this , I 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 of a thief that had ...
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enough to see there is nothing in them ; and so , I hope , your grace will . ' He died October 21 , 1687 , and was buried at Beaconsfield , with a monument erected by his son's executors , for which Rymer wrote the inscription ...
enough to see there is nothing in them ; and so , I hope , your grace will . ' He died October 21 , 1687 , and was buried at Beaconsfield , with a monument erected by his son's executors , for which Rymer wrote the inscription ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2011 |
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