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... hope , by seeing him fortunate , and partaking his prosperity . We know , at least , from Sprat's account , that he always acknowledged her care , and justly paid the dues of filial gratitude . In the window of his mother's apartment ...
... hope , by seeing him fortunate , and partaking his prosperity . We know , at least , from Sprat's account , that he always acknowledged her care , and justly paid the dues of filial gratitude . In the window of his mother's apartment ...
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... hope , or the gloominess of despair ; and dres ses his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis , some- times in flowers fading as her beauty , and some- times in gems lasting as her virtues . At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermyn , he was engaged ...
... hope , or the gloominess of despair ; and dres ses his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis , some- times in flowers fading as her beauty , and some- times in gems lasting as her virtues . At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermyn , he was engaged ...
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... hope , that By May's poem we are here to understand a continuation of Lucan's Pharsalia to the death of Julius Cæsar , by Thomas May , an eminent poet and historian , who flourished in , the reigns of James and Charles I. and of whom a ...
... hope , that By May's poem we are here to understand a continuation of Lucan's Pharsalia to the death of Julius Cæsar , by Thomas May , an eminent poet and historian , who flourished in , the reigns of James and Charles I. and of whom a ...
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... hope to recover my late hurt so far within five or six days ( though it be uncertain yet whether I shall ever recover it , ) as to walk about again . And then , methinks , you and I and the Dean might be very merry upon St. Ann's Hill ...
... hope to recover my late hurt so far within five or six days ( though it be uncertain yet whether I shall ever recover it , ) as to walk about again . And then , methinks , you and I and the Dean might be very merry upon St. Ann's Hill ...
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... hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observation . Their attempts were al- ways analytic ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent , by their slender conceits and laboured ...
... hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observation . Their attempts were al- ways analytic ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent , by their slender conceits and laboured ...
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