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Page 22
What Cowley has written upon Hope , shews an unequalled feruility of invention :
Hope , whose weak being ruin ' d is , Alike if it succed , and if it miss ; Whom good
or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of Fate ' s dilemma wound .
What Cowley has written upon Hope , shews an unequalled feruility of invention :
Hope , whose weak being ruin ' d is , Alike if it succed , and if it miss ; Whom good
or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of Fate ' s dilemma wound .
Page 63
Hope . Chorus bewails , and tells the good Adam Charity : Death ; has lost . Faith
. ACT V . Hope , Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise . Charity . presented by an
angel with Paradise Lost . Labour , Grief , Hatred , Envy , War , ) . The Persons .
Hope . Chorus bewails , and tells the good Adam Charity : Death ; has lost . Faith
. ACT V . Hope , Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise . Charity . presented by an
angel with Paradise Lost . Labour , Grief , Hatred , Envy , War , ) . The Persons .
Page 64
... the evils of this life and world . He is humbled , relents , despairs ; at last
appears Mercy , comforts him , promises the Messiah ; then calls in Faith , Hope ,
and Charity ; instructs him ; be tepents : gives God the glory , submits to his
penalty .
... the evils of this life and world . He is humbled , relents , despairs ; at last
appears Mercy , comforts him , promises the Messiah ; then calls in Faith , Hope ,
and Charity ; instructs him ; be tepents : gives God the glory , submits to his
penalty .
Page 380
Gay is represented as a man easily incited to hope , and deeply dopressed when
his hopes were disappointed . This is not the character of a bero ; but it may
naturally imply something more generaliy welcome , a soft and civil companion .
Gay is represented as a man easily incited to hope , and deeply dopressed when
his hopes were disappointed . This is not the character of a bero ; but it may
naturally imply something more generaliy welcome , a soft and civil companion .
Page 417
I hope this will not be as if we meant to reflect upon that gen" tleman , or remove
any thing ' from us upon him , or that we repine ... Mr . Savage had now no hopes
of life but from the mercy of the crown , which was very earnestly solicited by his ...
I hope this will not be as if we meant to reflect upon that gen" tleman , or remove
any thing ' from us upon him , or that we repine ... Mr . Savage had now no hopes
of life but from the mercy of the crown , which was very earnestly solicited by his ...
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| Title | Lives Volume 1 of The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | A. Miller, 1800 |
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