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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 ...
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 ...
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Hope . Charity . Paradise Lost . The Persons . Moses , πрoλoyíla , recounting how he assumed his true body ; that it corrupts not , because it is with God in the mount ; declares the like of Enoch and Elijah ; besides the purity of the ...
Hope . Charity . Paradise Lost . The Persons . Moses , πрoλoyíla , recounting how he assumed his true body ; that it corrupts not , because it is with God in the mount ; declares the like of Enoch and Elijah ; besides the purity of the ...
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But he had still 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 ...
But he had still 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 ...
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