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... Labour , Sickness , Discontent , Ignorance , with other , Faith . Hope . Charity . Conscience . Labour , Mutes . Sickness , Discontent , Ignorance , Fear , Death , Faith . Hope . Charity . Mutes . PARADISE LOST The Persons Moses ...
... Labour , Sickness , Discontent , Ignorance , with other , Faith . Hope . Charity . Conscience . Labour , Mutes . Sickness , Discontent , Ignorance , Fear , Death , Faith . Hope . Charity . Mutes . PARADISE LOST The Persons Moses ...
Page 140
... labour , finding the credit of his author was gone . Now , if he thinks it is re- covered by his Answer , he [ Dryden ] will perhaps go on with his translation ; and this may be , for aught I know , as good an entertainment for him as ...
... labour , finding the credit of his author was gone . Now , if he thinks it is re- covered by his Answer , he [ Dryden ] will perhaps go on with his translation ; and this may be , for aught I know , as good an entertainment for him as ...
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... labour ; for of labour , notwithstanding the multiplicity of his productions , there is sufficient reason to suspect that he was not a lover . To write con amore , with fondness for the employment , with per- petual touches and ...
... labour ; for of labour , notwithstanding the multiplicity of his productions , there is sufficient reason to suspect that he was not a lover . To write con amore , with fondness for the employment , with per- petual touches and ...
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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