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... Thou know'st how lame a cripple this world is . ( 237-8 ; see also 325–6 , 369–70 , 427–8 ) The result is that , as ... thou art not so , For , those , whom thou think'st , thou dost overthrow , Die not , poor death , nor yet canst thou ...
... Thou know'st how lame a cripple this world is . ( 237-8 ; see also 325–6 , 369–70 , 427–8 ) The result is that , as ... thou art not so , For , those , whom thou think'st , thou dost overthrow , Die not , poor death , nor yet canst thou ...
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... thou then ? ' seems in this light not so much a triumphant sneer as a question fearfully to be asked . The last two lines contain a point that , if it had been the basis of the whole argument , might have saved it , but which , thrown ...
... thou then ? ' seems in this light not so much a triumphant sneer as a question fearfully to be asked . The last two lines contain a point that , if it had been the basis of the whole argument , might have saved it , but which , thrown ...
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... thou wast such ? Oh could'st thou speak , As in Dodona once thy kindred trees Oracular , I would not curious ask The future , best unknown , but at thy mouth Inquisitive , the less ambiguous past . ( 40-4 ) The first sentence seems ...
... thou wast such ? Oh could'st thou speak , As in Dodona once thy kindred trees Oracular , I would not curious ask The future , best unknown , but at thy mouth Inquisitive , the less ambiguous past . ( 40-4 ) The first sentence seems ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Achitophel admit argues argument attack attitude Augustan Balaam becomes Chanticleer character Chaucer's Christian civilisation Comus concerned context contrast Cowper Crabbe Crabbe's Crusoe's death Defoe Defoe's novels Deserted Village Donne Donne's Dryden eighteenth-century Elegy Epistle Essays example fact fancy feel Fielding Fielding's further give Goldsmith Gray Gray's happy Heaven Ian Watt Il Penseroso Johnson Jones L'Allegro Lady lines literature live Lycidas marriage Milton mind miseries Moll Moll Flanders moral nature nature's notion nun's priest Nun's Priest's Tale o'er object pains Pamela passion peasant Penseroso Penshurst perhaps picture pleasure poem poet poetic poetry political Pope Pope's portrayal portrayed pride Rasselas reality Robinson Crusoe rustic Satan satire says scene seen sense Shamela shows simply social soul speaker spiritual stanza Swift tale thee theme things Thomson thou thought Tom Jones tree Triffids truth universe virtue vision write