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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 86
... Hope . Death ; Charity . Faith . 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 ...
... Hope . Death ; Charity . Faith . 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 ...
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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