Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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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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... hope of future gaine , I suffred long what did my soule displease ; But when my youth was spent my hope was vaine , I felt my native strength at last decrease ; I gan my losse of lustie yeeres complaine , And wisht I had enjoy'd the ...
... hope of future gaine , I suffred long what did my soule displease ; But when my youth was spent my hope was vaine , I felt my native strength at last decrease ; I gan my losse of lustie yeeres complaine , And wisht I had enjoy'd the ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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