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Page 129
... Death , brought upon the stage , all as active persons of the drama ; but no precedents can justify absurdity . Milton's allegory of Sin and Death is undoubtedly faulty . Sin is indeed the mother of Death , and may be allowed to be the ...
... Death , brought upon the stage , all as active persons of the drama ; but no precedents can justify absurdity . Milton's allegory of Sin and Death is undoubtedly faulty . Sin is indeed the mother of Death , and may be allowed to be the ...
Page 150
... Death of John Earl of Rochester ; which the critick ought to read for its elegance , the philosopher for its arguments , and the saint for its piety . It were an injury to the reader to offer him an abridgement . He died July 26 , 1680 ...
... Death of John Earl of Rochester ; which the critick ought to read for its elegance , the philosopher for its arguments , and the saint for its piety . It were an injury to the reader to offer him an abridgement . He died July 26 , 1680 ...
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... death I have not learned . It must hav happened between 1707 , when he wrote to Pope ; and 1711 , when Pope praised him in his Essay . The epitaph makes him forty - six years old : if Wood's account be right he died in 1709 . He is ...
... death I have not learned . It must hav happened between 1707 , when he wrote to Pope ; and 1711 , when Pope praised him in his Essay . The epitaph makes him forty - six years old : if Wood's account be right he died in 1709 . He is ...
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