Lives of The English Poets Volume I1961 |
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... Hope shews 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 shews 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 ...
Page 86
... Hope . Conscience . Labour , Sickness , Discontent , Mutes . Ignorance , Fear , Death ; Charity . Faith . Hope . Charity . Paradise Lost . The Persons . Moses , πрoλoyíče , recounting how he assumed his true body ; that it corrupts not ...
... Hope . Conscience . Labour , Sickness , Discontent , Mutes . Ignorance , Fear , Death ; Charity . Faith . Hope . Charity . Paradise Lost . The Persons . Moses , πрoλoyíče , recounting how he assumed his true body ; that it corrupts not ...
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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 natiue 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 natiue strength at last decrease ; I gan my losse of lustie yeeres complaine , And wisht I had enjoy'd the ...
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