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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 . Charity . Conscience . Labour , Mutes . Sickness , Discontent , Ignorance , Fear , Death , Faith . Hope . Charity . Mutes . PARADISE LOST The Persons Moses # poλoyle , recounting how he assumed his true body ; that it corrupts ...
... Hope . Charity . Conscience . Labour , Mutes . Sickness , Discontent , Ignorance , Fear , Death , Faith . Hope . Charity . Mutes . PARADISE LOST The Persons Moses # poλoyle , recounting how he assumed his true body ; that it corrupts ...
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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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Absalom and Achitophel acquaintance Addison Æneid afterwards appears blank verse censure character considered conversation Cowley criticism death declared delight desire diction diligence Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English excellence expected faults favour friends genius Georgics happy honour Iliad images imagination imitation John Dryden John Wain Johnson kind King knew known labour language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax mentioned metaphysical poets Milton mind nature neglected never NIHIL numbers observed occasion once opinion Paradise Lost passions performance perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise produced published Queen reader reason received remarks reputation resentment rhyme Samuel Johnson satire Savage says seems sentiments solicited sometimes sufficient supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thought told tragedy translation truth Tyrconnel verses Virgil virtue write written wrote