LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... hope , or the gloominess of despair , and dresses his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis sometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and sometimes in gems lasting as her virtues . At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermyn , he was engaged in ...
... hope , or the gloominess of despair , and dresses his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis sometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and sometimes in gems lasting as her virtues . At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermyn , he was engaged in ...
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... hope , that great numbers were inevitably disappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very tediously delayed . He had been promised by both Charles the first and second the Mastership of the Savoy ; " but he lost it , " says Wood , " by ...
... hope , that great numbers were inevitably disappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very tediously delayed . He had been promised by both Charles the first and second the Mastership of the Savoy ; " but he lost it , " says Wood , " by ...
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... hope " to recover my late hurt so farre 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 up in St. Anne's ...
... hope " to recover my late hurt so farre 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 up in St. Anne's ...
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... hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observation . Their attempts were always analytick ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent , by their slender conceits and laboured particu ...
... hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observation . Their attempts were always analytick ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent , by their slender conceits and laboured particu ...
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... Hope , shews an unequalled fertility 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 . Vain shadow , which dost ...
... Hope , shews an unequalled fertility 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 . Vain shadow , which dost ...
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