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Page 185
... called The Prog- ress of the Freethinker , whom he intended to lead through all the stages of vice and folly , to convert him from virtue to wickedness , and from religion to infidelity , by all the modish sophistry used for that ...
... called The Prog- ress of the Freethinker , whom he intended to lead through all the stages of vice and folly , to convert him from virtue to wickedness , and from religion to infidelity , by all the modish sophistry used for that ...
Page 195
... called up to dinner : it was therefore im- possible to pay him any distinction without the en- tire subversion of all economy , a kind of establish- ment which , wherever he went , he always appeared ambitious to overthrow . It must ...
... called up to dinner : it was therefore im- possible to pay him any distinction without the en- tire subversion of all economy , a kind of establish- ment which , wherever he went , he always appeared ambitious to overthrow . It must ...
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... called him in his verses " low - born Allen . " Men are seldom satisfied with praise intro- duced or followed by any mention of defect . Allen seems not to have taken any pleasure in his epithet , which was afterwards softened into ...
... called him in his verses " low - born Allen . " Men are seldom satisfied with praise intro- duced or followed by any mention of defect . Allen seems not to have taken any pleasure in his epithet , which was afterwards softened into ...
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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