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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 scholastick , 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 scholastick , they ...
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... virtue , he had ready for him , whom he wished to court on the morrow , new wit and virtue with another stamp . Of this kind of mean- ness he never seems to decline the practice , or lament the necessity : he considers the great as ...
... virtue , he had ready for him , whom he wished to court on the morrow , new wit and virtue with another stamp . Of this kind of mean- ness he never seems to decline the practice , or lament the necessity : he considers the great as ...
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... virtue , but generally love to virtue and hatred to vice ; by shewing the rewards of one , and punishments of the other ; at least , by rendering virtue always amiable , tho ' it be shewn unfortunate ; and vice detestable , though it be ...
... virtue , but generally love to virtue and hatred to vice ; by shewing the rewards of one , and punishments of the other ; at least , by rendering virtue always amiable , tho ' it be shewn unfortunate ; and vice detestable , though it be ...
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| Title | Lives of The English Poets Volume I |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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