LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... virtue , his retreat was cowardice . He then took upon himself the character of Physician , still , according to Sprat , with intention " to dissemble the main design of his coming over , ” and , as Mr. Wood relates , " complying with ...
... virtue , his retreat was cowardice . He then took upon himself the character of Physician , still , according to Sprat , with intention " to dissemble the main design of his coming over , ” and , as Mr. Wood relates , " complying with ...
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... virtue made it innocent to him , yet nothing could " make it quiet . Those were the reasons that made him to follow the violent “ inclination of his own mind , which , in the greatest throng of his former " business , had still called ...
... virtue made it innocent to him , yet nothing could " make it quiet . Those were the reasons that made him to follow the violent “ inclination of his own mind , which , in the greatest throng of his former " business , had still called ...
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... virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in them too scholastic , they ...
... virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in them too scholastic , they ...
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Samuel Johnson. All the world's riches : and in good men , this Virtue , our form's form , and our soul's soul is . Of thoughts so far fetched , as to be not only unexpected , but unnatural , all their books are full . To a Lady , who ...
Samuel Johnson. All the world's riches : and in good men , this Virtue , our form's form , and our soul's soul is . Of thoughts so far fetched , as to be not only unexpected , but unnatural , all their books are full . To a Lady , who ...
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... Virtues , indeed remote , seem to be near . Who would imagine it possible that in a very few lines , so many remote ideas could be brought together ? Since ' tis my doom , Love's undershrieve Why this reprieve ? Why doth my she advowson ...
... Virtues , indeed remote , seem to be near . Who would imagine it possible that in a very few lines , so many remote ideas could be brought together ? Since ' tis my doom , Love's undershrieve Why this reprieve ? Why doth my she advowson ...
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