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... seems to have been peculiarly formed : Let envy then those crimes within you see , From which the happy never must be free ; Envy that does with misery reside , The joy and the revenge of ruin'd pride . Into this poem he seems to have ...
... seems to have been peculiarly formed : Let envy then those crimes within you see , From which the happy never must be free ; Envy that does with misery reside , The joy and the revenge of ruin'd pride . Into this poem he seems to have ...
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... seems to look round him for images which he cannot find , and what he has he distorts by endeavouring to enlarge them . " He is , " he says , " petrified with grief , ” but the marble sometimes relents and trickles in a joke . The sons ...
... seems to look round him for images which he cannot find , and what he has he distorts by endeavouring to enlarge them . " He is , " he says , " petrified with grief , ” but the marble sometimes relents and trickles in a joke . The sons ...
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... seems to be of an opinion not very uncommon in the world , that to want money is to want everything . Next to the pleasure of contemplating his posses- sions seems to be that of enumerating the men of high rank with whom he was ...
... seems to be of an opinion not very uncommon in the world , that to want money is to want everything . Next to the pleasure of contemplating his posses- sions seems to be that of enumerating the men of high rank with whom he was ...
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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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