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... turns to ask , But what are these to great Atossa's mind ? Scarce once herself , by turns all Womankind ! Who , with herself , or others , from her birth Finds all her life one warfare upon earth : Shines , in exposing Knaves , and ...
... turns to ask , But what are these to great Atossa's mind ? Scarce once herself , by turns all Womankind ! Who , with herself , or others , from her birth Finds all her life one warfare upon earth : Shines , in exposing Knaves , and ...
Page 130
... turns from scenes of woe to blame ' man for allowing them to happen ; some- times he simply presents the fact without comment . In his winter retreat , Thomson tells us , he would speculate on whether nature , destructive as he has seen ...
... turns from scenes of woe to blame ' man for allowing them to happen ; some- times he simply presents the fact without comment . In his winter retreat , Thomson tells us , he would speculate on whether nature , destructive as he has seen ...
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... turns , having given a poem which is more true to the ' unhonoured dead ' than the rustic epitaph , to give himself to their condition . But the sympathy is one in which he gains as well as loses : he breaks free of his own self ...
... turns , having given a poem which is more true to the ' unhonoured dead ' than the rustic epitaph , to give himself to their condition . But the sympathy is one in which he gains as well as loses : he breaks free of his own self ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Achitophel admit argues argument attack attitude Augustan Balaam becomes Chanticleer character Chaucer's Christian civilisation Comus concerned context contrast Cowper Crabbe Crabbe's Crusoe's death Defoe Defoe's novels Deserted Village Donne Donne's Dryden eighteenth-century Elegy Epistle Essays example fact fancy feel Fielding Fielding's further give Goldsmith Gray Gray's happy Heaven Ian Watt Il Penseroso Johnson Jones L'Allegro Lady lines literature live Lycidas marriage Milton mind miseries Moll Moll Flanders moral nature nature's notion Nun's Priest's Nun's Priest's Tale o'er object pains Pamela passion peasant Penseroso Penshurst perhaps picture pleasure poem poet poetic poetry political Pope Pope's portrayal portrayed pride Rasselas reality Robinson Crusoe rustic Satan satire says scene seen sense Shamela shows simply social soul speaker spiritual stanza Swift tale thee theme things Thomson thou thought Tom Jones tree Triffids truth universe virtue vision write