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... Hope shows an unequalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed , and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of Fate's dilemma wound ; Vain shadow ! which dost ...
... Hope shows an unequalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed , and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of Fate's dilemma wound ; Vain shadow ! which dost ...
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... Hope and Charity ; instructs him ; he repents , gives God the glory , submits to his penalty . The Chorus briefly ... hope of doing something . He wrote letters , which Toland has published , to such men as he thought friends to the new ...
... Hope and Charity ; instructs him ; he repents , gives God the glory , submits to his penalty . The Chorus briefly ... hope of doing something . He wrote letters , which Toland has published , to such men as he thought friends to the new ...
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Samuel Johnson. Tickell , in his Prospect of Peace , has the same hope of a new academy : In happy chains our daring ... hope that they might , by driving the Whigs from court and from power , gratify at once the Queen and the people ...
Samuel Johnson. Tickell , in his Prospect of Peace , has the same hope of a new academy : In happy chains our daring ... hope that they might , by driving the Whigs from court and from power , gratify at once the Queen and the people ...
Contents
WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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