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Page 61
... elegance and literature . His purpose was now to have visited Sicily and Greece ; but , hearing of the differences between the King and Parliament , he thought it proper to hasten home , rather than pass his life in foreign amusements ...
... elegance and literature . His purpose was now to have visited Sicily and Greece ; but , hearing of the differences between the King and Parliament , he thought it proper to hasten home , rather than pass his life in foreign amusements ...
Page 72
... elegance is less attainable . Having exposed the unskilfulness or selfishness of the former government , " We were left , " says Milton , " to ourselves : the whole national interest fell into your hands , and subsists only in your ...
... elegance is less attainable . Having exposed the unskilfulness or selfishness of the former government , " We were left , " says Milton , " to ourselves : the whole national interest fell into your hands , and subsists only in your ...
Page 320
... elegance , and courage naturally excite ; and to lose at last the hero in the villain . The fifth act is not equal to the former ; the events of the drama are exhausted , and little remains but to talk of what is past . It has been ...
... elegance , and courage naturally excite ; and to lose at last the hero in the villain . The fifth act is not equal to the former ; the events of the drama are exhausted , and little remains but to talk of what is past . It has been ...
Contents
WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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