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... character can justify , because no good man would willingly permit them to pass , how- ever transiently , through his own mind . To make Satan speak as a rebel , without any such expressions as might taint the reader's imagination , was ...
... character can justify , because no good man would willingly permit them to pass , how- ever transiently , through his own mind . To make Satan speak as a rebel , without any such expressions as might taint the reader's imagination , was ...
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... character became more liable to misapprehensions and misrepresentations : he was very modest , and very easily to be discountenanced in his approaches to his equals or superiors . As his reading had been very extensive , so was he very ...
... character became more liable to misapprehensions and misrepresentations : he was very modest , and very easily to be discountenanced in his approaches to his equals or superiors . As his reading had been very extensive , so was he very ...
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... character as a companion , it ap- pears that he lived in familiarity with the highest persons of his time . It is related by Carte of the Duke of Ormond , that he used often to pass a night with Dryden , and those with whom Dryden con ...
... character as a companion , it ap- pears that he lived in familiarity with the highest persons of his time . It is related by Carte of the Duke of Ormond , that he used often to pass a night with Dryden , and those with whom Dryden con ...
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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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